The Caterpillar or the Leaves

I've had just enough time...   to harvest a butterfly

The caterpillar hiding under a branch...

Two pots of ailing

Flowering plants

Nursed back to health.

New leaves from

Barren branches

Pleased me.

Shocked me

To see leaves of

One stripped bare.

The next day, the

Rest disappeared.

The culprit was found

Fat under a branch

Shyly hiding from

The sun, leaving me

To decide the fate of

The caterpillar

Or the leaves

My prosperity flowers whose leaves were devoured.
Can you see where the caterpillar is hiding?

I wanted the flowers

Of the plants nursed

To health, but strange

Are the fruits of the

Tree one sowed

I harvest a butterfly

Instead.

What would you choose?
The leaves or the caterpillar or...

We Always Reap What We Sow.

I've had just enough time to...   continue sowing...

Taken during near a river bank in Kuching, East Malaysia.

“We reap what we sow”

Not always

But it should not be for lack of trying

It should not be for lack of hoping

It should not be for lack of sacrificing

We do what we can

And hope for a bountiful harvest

Not always

But we should not give up

We should not give in

We should just sow some more

And hope for a bountiful harvest

Not always for

It may not be what we hope for

Nor the harvest we look for but

“We always reap what we sow”

_______

The Harvest Song

《丰收歌》女声合唱·中央民族乐团合唱团