#Fable: One good turn #atozchallenge

There once was a curious cat
She loved to explore
She dug the dirt under fences
And peeked through every door

One day in the garden
On a solo mystery tour
She unearthed a tiny lizard
For her hunger pangs, a cure

Pinning him with her paw
She tried to break his tail
‘Please don’t eat me, miss’
She heard the lizard wail

‘If you let me go,’ he said
‘I’ll repay you one day
You won’t regret helping me
If my request you obey’

She looked at him with contempt
But then lifted up her paw
‘I’ve had a change of heart,’ she said
And indoors she did withdraw

Months later on an adventure
She escaped from her home
Talked to strange cats and dogs
While new streets she did roam

Two humans came up to her
And coaxed her with some food
Her instincts said to be wary —
These boys were up to no good

They trapped her and tied her feet
Before she could escape
She mewled and hissed at them
As they wrapped her jaw with tape

They brought a flame to her tail
And laughed at her despair
But before they could do more harm
Two snakes appeared from nowhere

They stuck their fangs into the boys
And watched them crumple to the ground
They struck them again on their arms
The animals winning this round

They helped the cat untie her feet
She freed her mouth of tape
‘Thank you for your help,’ she mewed
‘I’m now in better shape’

‘No need to thank us’ they hissed
‘We were just doing our job
Responding to cries of help
From our cousin, Bob’

T’was then she saw between them
A little lizard in black
He was the same one she knew
Whom she’d spared from attack

‘I told you back then you see’
Said Bob with a smile
‘One good turn deserves another
Even if you use some guile’

(c) Sanch Vee @ Sanch Writes (7 April 2017)

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 A fable is a poetic story composed in verse or prose with a moral summed up at the end. It usually uses animals as characters to teach a valuable lesson.

This has been written for the 2017 A to Z Challenge