How Not to Get Lost

When I was a boy, my dad taught me and my siblings ways to go iinto the woods and come out again without getting lost.  This poem is about this teaching:


                                                                 To find his way
                                                                     back through the woods
                                                                           where no path existed,
                                                                  he'd bend down a
                                                                     larger branch, or break
                                                                            branches from a
                                                                                         dead tree.
                                                                  If he'd do this,
                                                                      As he made his
                                                                             way along "his" trail.
                                                                  He would only have to
                                                                       look for them when
                                                                              he returned.
                                                                  He taught me this,
                                                                        and would say he
                                                                               he never had to worry
                                                                  that I would get lost
                                                                         in the nearby woods.
                                                                                Remembering his
                                                                  teaching was somewhat difficult
                                                                         for a young boy
                                                                                 in pursuit of a
                                                                  colorful butterfly,
                                                                         or a fluffy brown
                                                                                   wild bunny.