Once there was a nightcrawler <br />Burrowing, burrowing, burrowing.... <br />One day, it got sick of feeding on the rotten leaves; <br />the rotten trunks, the rotten flesh. <br />When it crawled out of the ground, <br />it saw a caterpillar chewing on a green leaf, <br />luscious leaf, green and fresh <br />The crawler was enthralled with what it saw <br />for the creature on the tree was just like him <br />elongated body, segmented, soft <br />'Why does it not burrow but crawl on the tree? ' <br />the nightcrawler asked itself. <br />And the nightcrawler made up his mind, <br />'Off to the tree, I'd climb.' <br />So the nightcrawler tried to crawl, <br />crawl its way up to the tree <br />where the caterpillar is, <br />where it wants to be. <br />Determination is all the nightcrawler got, <br />for it has no legs to help itself <br />find its way through the dry tree bark. <br />Days and nights passed hastily, <br />the night crawler thought it is on its way to its destiny. <br />When it reached the spot where the caterpillar was <br />it was almost covered with dust <br />Its will, its spirit somehow made it survive <br />it really was a miracle it stayed alive <br />But the caterpillar can no longer be seen <br />for it already went inside its cocoon <br />though not used to the sight, the nightcrawler recognized <br />that an awakening was about to unravel soon. <br />To the cocoon, the nightcrawler tried to get in <br />Alas! there was no way for it to fit in <br />For in a cocoon is where it should not be <br />But on the ground which gives rest to the tree <br />Days and days passed and the caterpillar finally crawled out <br />Winged; it flew away from the tree <br />The beautiful wings are what the nightcrawler did see <br />Staring at the empty cocoon on the branch of the tree <br />The nightcrawler uttered: 'This does not belong to me.'<br /><br />Estrellita Dedel<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/once-there-was-a-nightcrawler/
