Geometry

Never a mouse

chases ever a tail,

never a mouse ever sees

that always a cat

catches always a mouse,

cats being kittens

who once chased their tails.

Toss a pebble into a stream,

never a circle catches a circle;

shoot a dawn-ball

into the sky,

never a moonbeam

catches a sun;

drop the same thought

on the floor:

Only a kitten catches a tail,

the tail being straight,

the kitten a circle.

Yet never a mouse

chases ever a tail,

never a mouse ever sees

that always some death

catches always his mouse,

deaths being kittens

who once chased their tails.