Dispatches from the wilds of Poetania – Farewell

I wanted to keep you

so much

when I saw you sitting next to me

arrayed in red and black,

your finery majestic.

I wanted to hold you,

and take you with me.

I wanted to share my world with you,

I wanted…



But we both know that couldn’t be.

You’d leave eventually,

you’d have to

and I…

these hands are too clumsy

to hold you.



And if I tried to keep you,

for as long as I could,

who knows where you’d be, when you finally left?

What dark place you’d find yourself?



So I took you,

so carefully

to where you’d be safe

to where the sun shone,

to where the leaves swayed,

to where the flowers bloomed,

and said good-bye.

I hope you have a wonderful life

I’ll miss you, Lady-beetle.