Mayfly (Revised)

[Julius]

Mayfly (Revised)

I watch you flutter midst bright rays of sun

so innocent of how you came to be

as wonderful a sight for anyone

who here would rest awhile and watch with me.

I see bright colours in translucent wings

that drive your dance within warm beams of light.

It seems to me a choir of nature sings

its song and gently shares in my delight.

I know there was a time of cruelty

when nature bid you kill so you'd survive.

I understand, I know it had to be,

for this day of pleasure to arrive.

Nature knows no guilt my little one;

so take this day of life under the sun.






Mayfly

I watch you flutter in the mid-day sun
so innocent of how you came to be
so beautiful; a sight for any one
who has the time, and will, to stand and see
the rainbow colours in your fragile wings.
Then as you dart within warm beams of light,
it seems to me, the whole of nature sings
its song, and gently shares in my delight.

I know there was a time of cruelty
when you would kill in order to survive.
I understand, I know it had to be
in order that this pleasant day arrive.
So have no guilt my pretty little one;
accept your day of life under the sun.