Give Us A Smile

Welcome to my marshland home

Did you bring a friend or did you come alone

Won't you take a seat and rest your weary bones

Please disregard the mess, I did not anticipate having guests

Where are my manners? Would you like a tea or coffee? Any allergies or gluten free requests

And that's when you realise you're surrounded by fragments of egg, a mother's love and

50 hatchlings closing in upon the nest

Things to keep you up at night

Panic, terror, fear and fright

Your worst fears are realised

Do you flounder, fight, freeze or fly