I helped to save
a grasshopper,
an unknown bug,
and a bit of twig,
from the water
in a water bowl
that I had left out
for a dog,
a hog,
or a hydrophobic frog
on a gap year.
I almost saw myself
as some kind of a saviour;
they probably saw me as a
naughty boy
of long-term bad behaviour,
trying to redeem the voucher of himself.
Graeme Sandford 