hawk and mice

 

my brain relentless

circling like a hawk preying

small thoughts flee down holes

 

flee like mice down holes

while hawk watches patiently

certain of his prey

 

I too flee like mice

trembling before the fear hawk

its beak rapier sharp

 

but fleeing like mice

will not protect us from hawk

inexorable

 

hawk watches, then dives

no more fleeing mice

my own legs tremble

 

hawk spreads his wide wings

I fall like mice before him

awakening blind