sue.evans

\'Mr Snail 🐌- what\'s the point?\'

I sat and marvelled one day

At a snail, as I watched him toil away,

\'Oh! Mr Snail can I please ask

Why you need to set yourself such a task,

How long does it take to scale the wall

On the side of my house, so tall?

And why, I ask, if I dare

Do you travel a journey to nowhere?\'

 

\'I climb the wall because I can

And I can do it with one foot unlike a human!

I know it takes a long time and my journey is slow 

But I don\'t know how far I go

Because of people like you - I loose track -

You and your kind keep knocking me back

To where I began - so I start again

To climb the wall in your garden,

And in answer to what else you ask 

About why I do such a task-

I don\'t know it\'s a journey to nowhere

Until I arrive and see what\'s up there!

But what can I do? I\'ve many hours to fill

And this is my job, it\'s God\'s will.\'

 

And then he was gone, annoyed at me

For questioning his right to be!