The spider weaves a web so it can catch its prey <br />wherever it is convenient to take its hunger away. <br />An intricate net so finely built yet strong to withhold <br />all those creatures of nature that get caught in its fold. <br /> <br />The spider knows it will most likely do its job well <br />and so in the course of the day only time will tell. <br />It is only when something bigger comes along the way <br />that the web will break and from its foundations stray. <br /> <br />It’s made to withstand the elements of wind, rain or shine <br />though it appears in structure to be very delicate and fine. <br />It never ceases to amaze me with what precision it is made <br />the work of a skilled artist and product of non-human trade. <br /> <br />It’s made of the same basic material as the silk of the worm <br />which the spider spins out of its body but is sticky and firm. <br />The purpose behind the two though has a different motive <br />being to the both of them uniquely characteristic or native. <br /> <br />I wouldn’t like to be one of those creatures caught in the web <br />struggling desperately to get away and feeling its own life ebb. <br />The length and trouble some creatures go to in life to survive <br />is part of the drama that goes on in nature to keep them alive. <br /> <br />The spider’s web hangs securely moving gently with the breeze <br />and is fastened onto stationary objects that support it with ease. <br />Its creator waits patiently at the centre for the right time to come <br />when the web gives signs that food has arrived again hmm…yum. <br /> <br />If you then happen to see a spider’s web that’s along your way <br />don’t go and deliberately pull it down as it is a crime I must say. <br />Unless abandoned or an interference let it catch the spider’s main feed <br />which is based on its natural instinct of survival and not that of greed.<br /><br />George Krokos<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-spider-s-web-2/
