What had tied us down
and held us in captivity,
rotten away in time.
Iron chains, turned to gossamer thread.
We could move again.
limbs weak from years of stillness,
but hearts full of life,
eyes bright and wide open.
We had wandered into
a spider’s web.
It seems so inevitable,
in hindsight.
We were so naive,
and didn’t know the dangers.
No one told us
we would be hunted.
.
Living an incautious life,
we fell prey to a predator,
but somehow we survived.
Might it also be
that the spider
also became prey?
Everything eats everything.
It’s one of those truths
they never taught us,
so we learned the hard way.
.
A trap
is set.
Always something waiting
in the dark,
to catch us
unaware,
and feed upon us.
But,
there is always
a bigger hunger,
and time remains
the ultimate arbiter
of who eats first.
.
.
HG – 2022
