Why Does?

Why does?

Why does the wagtail wag its tail?

Why do ravens flip their wings?

What do these things entail?

What would happen if things

Were different and the anteater

Stopped eating ant and termite?

If the animals in nature’s theatre

Were to try with all their might

To do things differently.

Why does the swift sleep in the sky?

Why do peacocks strut so proud?

I wonder and ask ‘why’

Whilst thinking aloud

So my dog looks strangely at me.

My soul begs a question

Though I know not the key

Nor the realisation

Of why things are different.

Dave Urmston c 2017