Catch and Release

Maybe I should have said something but I didn’t. I thought it might upset the girls. I stared for several moments Lost between thought and action Waiting for a sign, but no help was forthcoming. I thought of Buddhists and worms in the movie: "7 Years in Tibet". How Buddhists cannot harm even worms. Any living creature may be your Mother in another life, Therefore you must show respect to all living creatures. In the end I said nothing, did nothing. I left the daddy long legs resting on the metal roller At the end of the swimming pool where I had discovered him. I wondered how he had gotten there and what would become of him. Two days later my wife returned from the pool and casually mentioned How she and her friend had removed several bugs floating on the surface. All of them were dead. One of them, she said, was a daddy long legs spider. It was a small thing, but sometimes even the smallest of things Can make your day feel heavier.