The soft white butterfly,
came floating slowly by,
moving gently in the breeze,
stopping only to tease,
some clear spring sparkling sap,
from a flowering fuchsia’s fountained lap.
Sodden with the nectar of life,
it tried to rise, but dropped as sharply as a knife.
Half shut eyes suddenly focused in the light,
a teasing challenge had dropped into sight.
The steeled black cat, drawn to full height,
unleashed his petrifying paw with pitiless might.
The wind rushed, but the butterfly, like a billowed kite,
floated up and away, in a life saving flight.
NODROG'S WORLD 