Ode To A Painted Turtle lyrics

Today if but briefly you visisted

Your origin a mystery too

Deemed nameless, it became Flash

Dehydrated, and found wandering

Amid the forests of grassy tufts

Beneath a towering, topless fir

In dampened bin with greens

You chose to seek asylum out

And in a sanctum of garden

A pool, rocks and sustainance

But you were not free enough

And sought to strike out afar

But alas your tracks were traced

Trembling earth detected

And slightest movement seen

Gave away your stealthy retreat

A stalking robin so inclined

With malevolence on its mind

So whilst accomodations

They were being planned out

Salvation did not come soon

And as you came, you vanished

The robin did so too, silently

Gone were you, in a Flash