June 28, 2015

ENVY

Is envy simply a comparison

that can crush or eat us up?

Does the hippo wading in the mud

ever envy the speed of the gazelle?

How about a mouse watching

an eagle - soaring in the sky?

How about the barbed wire

compared to the clothes line?

How about the parrot listening to

a tenor practicing for an audition?

How about the tiger watching a

monkey swinging through the trees?

How about a crawling caterpillar 
watching a soaring butterfly?

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2015