Dear friends of ours doing their Loop had this poem to share of a significant tragic event in their lives, a fire devastated their home and business. But their response to the tragedy included the purchase of their beautiful vessel and new home called Lemonade!

They finally broke free to begin their Great Loop adventure earlier this year, and are currently westbound on the Trent Severn Waterway in Ontario!

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IT CAME ONE NIGHT

It came one night
On the 27th of July

What a frightful sight
That awful orange sky

It was the last time I would ever see
That which stood there, will no longer be.

It devoured with a hunger so great
Burning our beautiful north state

Blazing, roaring, trees snapping
Scorching, eating, houses collapsing

Sirens sounding, breaking ground
Men running, sweat dripping down

This hungry beast is awake
The destruction it will make

The painful cries
The many sighs

What a frightful sight
It came one night

On the 27th of July
That awful orange sky

• Narissa Lidster

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