I Am With You

Eagle soars, circles in the updraught keen eyes spot rabbit it swoops, dives run rabbit run at the last possible moment it turns uphill eagle has to turn away for fear of wing damage talons missed the target rabbit gets away I am with you Young child sneaks out of tent at dawn, runs down to the water crock lays in waiting in a foot of water near the edge as fauna looks for a morning drink young child about to step into the water gets spooked by a magpie, runs back to the tent crock goes hungry I am with you Stalker watches young woman in car park pack shopping every Wednesday night at 10 he's already killed before as he's about to abduct her a police car pulls into the carpark to apprehend a suspected shoplifter She goes home I am with you always