Tree Rats (Are Wonderful!)

Who me? (image source)

Warm and playful

Cute and smart

Quick and clever

Thief

You steal what you need

and hoard what’s left
 Ingenious little bandit

Even the most impenetrable heart

Opens to your love bites
Scornful of dalliance

You tear it apart

Scatter the scraps

and dash off

Chattering.

submitted for Imaginary Garden With Real Toads, Fireblossom Friday, FB Joins a Convent in which FB asks us to write a poem which DOES NOT reflect our true feelings (I detest the psychotic squirrels that steal our hummingbird nectar and that nested in my attic last year!)