Death of a Spider

by Binu Tharakan - Taurus

This way, this way, cried the fireflies
Guiding me to the deep darkness
To mourn, to grieve the death of their rival
The death of the legendary, nine-legged spider

There I saw the corpse of the spider
With nine moving legs, still a dead spider
The spider was dining over the web
And suffered a massive cardiac arrest

No one thought that he was dying 
And no one dared to go near the web
Because he always fooled them in the past
Pretending that he was dying, but lying

It took two days to confirm his death
And took two days to bury his body

In the morning came the mourning flies
And I saw them trapped on the web
Many more than when the spider was alive

Birth sign: Taurus
Date created: 2005-12-03 00:27:41
Last updated: 2021-03-03 14:46:56
Poem ID: 71098

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