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* This unusual sonnet is my response to today's Poem a Day Challenge on another blog to write a poem using the name of an insect. I've also been promising you, my friends here at RhymeZone, a new sonnet... so, I thought I'd try to catch two flies with one web!
If I had been the Spider, You the Fly
If I had been the spider, you the fly,
upon my web you’d dance before we’d dine.
Then, sitting down, we’d feast (not you, but I)
and savour every morsel with fine wine.
When we first met, you lured me to your web
then spun me with distortions, spoke untrue,
‘til over time I felt my spirit ebb.
(I’d feel quite justified devouring you.)
But, I’m no Spider Queen on silken throne
nor you a juicy bug I’d care to eat,
distasteful in all ways. You’ll not atone—
Too filled are you with ego-fuelled conceit.
I’ve swept your dusty cobwebs out my door.
Good riddance to your trash for evermore!
If I had been the Spider, You the Fly
If I had been the spider, you the fly,
upon my web you’d dance before we’d dine.
Then, sitting down, we’d feast (not you, but I)
and savour every morsel with fine wine.
When we first met, you lured me to your web
then spun me with distortions, spoke untrue,
‘til over time I felt my spirit ebb.
(I’d feel quite justified devouring you.)
But, I’m no Spider Queen on silken throne
nor you a juicy bug I’d care to eat,
distasteful in all ways. You’ll not atone—
Too filled are you with ego-fuelled conceit.
I’ve swept your dusty cobwebs out my door.
Good riddance to your trash for evermore!
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