Night Janitors

All day long in bushes
Baby rabbit slept.
But with darkness coming
Little female lept.

Subdivision pavements
Room to jump and run.
Brother showed her play-time
Exercise and fun.

But a teenage driver
Home from party wild
Didn’t see the rabbit
Blasting Fate’s sad child.

Now the playing ended
Now the beating stopped
Flattened and dismembered.
One who laughed and hopped.

Morning sun brings
Two crows.
Breakfast found; no cost.
Bunny now in past tense.
All her sporting lost.

Lamenting of a mourning Dove
Dirge is played on High
Finches found just singing
Hardly have to try.