the green grasshopper

The big green grasshopper

Hanging satisfied on the bamboo branch

Stationed high up feeling its world

Of many colours and lights

It ate for free

The leaves around the garden

It didn't have to pay

It destroyed the living leaves

I looked up at the grasshopper

It didn't want to fly

Looking ever confident on the bamboo branch

Maybe thinking nobody could touch it

I took a long thin cane

I had only a chance to hit it

I hit it with a force

It landed on the ground

It was in a daze

I took a scissor and cut it into parts

Let the grasshopper to get reborn

Into a better life elsewhere