Evolving Emotions: Squirrel Staring Contest

A bushy tail

Flourishing in the bitter wind

Curiously Driven

Hopelessly Eager

Frantic paws

Working through

The solid Earth

Toward a humble prize

A heart beating rapidly

Blood flooding the body

Lungs accelerating

In the face of something new

A charming face

Greets the beady eyes

The new creature crouches

Waiting

A stare interlocks them

Each afraid to move

Crunch

The leaves sound

The being shifts

Away rushes the animal

Up a tree

To refuge

To a world unknown

To the person

Crouching among the leaves

Striking disappointment

Slapped across their face