Sadie was a doubtful one Her mind was tightly shut When faced with the fantastical She’d fold her arms and tut She pranced around her garden With an playful evil aura And dealt a merry flattening To all that passed before her Their bodies lay around her And an imp of mischief found her
She loved to trap and poison And wished she’d been a spider When a fizzing overtook her When a rumble grew inside her When a shrinking and a shrivelling Across her form did tickle And soon did Sadie realise That wishes can be fickle Her legs and arms divided Her eyeballs multiply did
So sorry Sadie scuttled Alternating creep and crawl She tippy-toe’d across the grass And past her victims all And sadness was upon her And with mourning in her eyes Her grief compounded hunger And an appetite for flies Her lengthy limbs belied her Sorry Sadie was a spider
She loped along a lily And her sorrow turned to guilt Her carapace was aching For the blood which she had spilt She wept a web of anguish With her sticky little tears She wound a downward spiral Like the falling of the years Her malice had been stunted Her fangs were dull and blunted
Sadie gained existence On a web of worldly woes She fed her tiny tummy Where the buzz and flutter goes And she learned the price of living So she killed just what she ate And she knew why killing needlessly Was such an ugly trait And with a human soul inside her She chose to be a spider