Fragility Naivety

Fragility, naivety, 

Butterfly: beauty in flight;

Carefree, crushed-velvet, 

Tissue-paper winged. 



Hidden danger,

Spider: carnivorous croucher;

Cunning, silk-weaved-webs, 

Sticky-threaded-needles.



Fragility, naivety,

Butterfly: flightless, caught! 

Futile, life-crushed! 

Mummified; drawn-out-death. 



Hidden danger? 

Spider: survivor! 

Evolutionary table-turner; silk-encasing,

Chrysalis-cocooned; a bodybag-for-life.



A. Wensley

27.07.2023