Why There is Light at Night

Every morning Spider and his family wake with a sweet tooth.
Theirs is a hunger that stems from deep night dreams.
Spider, his two sons, and wife Aso, wake craving the tallest tree fruit -
which is the only cure for a morning sweet tooth.

Each morning, Spider and his family look up to the trees
and day dream of the sweets that are only the birds' to eat.
Spider says, "If only I had wings, I could beat those birds to the sweet!"

So Spider and his boys decided to build some wings.

They went to the ground and gathered feathers dropped in flight
And took them to the town magician in the blackest of night.
In magician - magic speak,
Spider was told "Flight is a dangerous thing -
if the birds catch you there will be no sweet."

But Spider's ears were full of echos from his family's sweet tooth
and he secretly laughed at the magician's advice saying,
"Those birds won't know, we'll blend in with our fallen wing flight!"

So Spider and his boys built themselves some wings.
But in flying off each and every night,
the magician's magic speak came back
with the birds pecking and cawing, shreeking
"Swweeet! Swweeet Sweeeeeeeet! Sweeet!"

Those birds chased Spider and his boys straight back to the ground.
Where they crawled, humbled home, to Aso who shook her head
saying "Spiders aren't birds."

Spider went to bed dreading his morning sweet tooth,
but he dreamt this dream now that sure cleared his head.

Spider dreamt that he was a bird circling the morning sky -
looking for something tasty, crunchy, and sweet to eat.
Seeing the fruit, Spider soared down from the sky and
pecked three big holes in each fruit side.
But Spider didn't taste the sweetness of fruit,
he crunched on the sweetness of bugs from the fruit!!!

Spider woke with a start and turned to his wife.
"We are spiders my dear and do as we do,
let's spin us a web to catch them some food!"

So Spider and his family went quietly to work,
spinning a web that would cover the sky
to trap the birds favorite food:
the big butt fire fly.

Days upon days
the spiders kept spinning -
until a gaint web covered the night,
trapping, for the birds, delectible balls of light.

The fire flies were trapped by the time morning birds woke,
and they feasted on lights, while Spider and his family feasted on fruit.

From that day on,
the spiders kept spinning,
the web kept on growing,
and both the spiders and birds feasted on gold.