A starving mouse crept out of its hole
Knowing if it did not find nourishment
It would soon die
Dizzily,
It staggered forward
On the gravelly path
Searching for a bit of food
And soon was rewarded with the sight
Of a large piece of bread
With a joyous squeak
It leapt forward
And had hardly bit in
When it was rammed aside
By a larger mouse
Who began eating the morsel
Whereupon the mouse
Went around the side
And tried to eat
When the other mouse came around
And chased it off. The weary mouse
Went off with a sigh
In search of more food
But it was too exhausted,
Too weak
Took a few steps, collapsed and died.
The other mouse finished the
Much too large piece of bread
When it spied a cat
Coming towards it.
It tried to scamper away
But its bulging belly slowed it down
And the cat effortlessly caught and killed it.
Moving forward
The cat saw the first mouse
And ate it up as well.
The little mouse died of too little
And the other, of too much.
Such is the story
And the undoing
Of human society.