1 June 2012

People don't like spiders,

They run away afraid

Or grab a hefty book

And send them to their graves.

We think they're brutal,

Creepy, shifty, weird,

I'm pretty sure the old guy down the road

Keeps one in his beard.

But little do we know,

As they wave their webs goodbye,

The last thing that they spend life on

Before they are to die.

The spider makes a little sac,

Bestows her little pearls

Upon it so it keeps them safe

Her little boys and girls,

And with her last energy

She takes it to a spot

Where the sac will come to no harm,

Where it's not too cold or hot,

And as she breathes her final breath

She sees them in her sights ,

The children she will never know

As she slips to eternal night.

It's really rather shameful

How is humans do whitewash

This act of adoration,

We forget the sorrowful loss.

We forget about the beauty

Of the ceremony in that cove,

How the spider gives her dying embers

In her final labour of love.

Perhaps if we were more like her

Our world would be more sane,

There'd be less hurt, less pain, less loss

If we only did the same.

DelilahIncy Wincy Love • Opuss № I