A Poem Just for Fun

Man and Mouse

It is quite possible, if you contemplate

that man and mouse can cohabitate.

The things that man has called his walls

are the things the mouse has made his halls.

The man is active in the light of day.

In the dark of night the mouse will play.

What man may eat, the mouse will too;

crumbs left behind will certainly do.

So nature finds a balance thus

between all the mice and all of us.

I take this image of mouse and man

and apply it in whatever I can.

Each human living has a different view

of what is false and what is true;

and in defense he builds his house

with walls dividing man from mouse;

each one thinking the mouse is the other

and neither seeing each as his brother;

leaving each other his crumbs of life

and always poised at the edge of strife.

There are some who see this duality

and try to change reality

for both to live equally well –

within the same walls, the two may dwell.

In doing this, they come to find

that the differences are in their mind.

What one leaves behind, the other uses

in a give-and-take where neither loses.

Each contributing what he can

to the unity of mouse and man.

4/19/2008