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Mice and Men
Colossal, un-afraid, and pretentious in all your grandeur,
you pesky mortals do not understand the plight in which I live my life.
You panic for losing your petty objects,
while the real murder has already happened.
I am dead.
I have been lost.
But not to you.
You poor mortal, monster, with which a delicate heart nests.
Snug in your house of comfort,
while I build one that was destroyed by your murdering hands.
Your weary body by nightfall,
is but an unsharpened pencil to my tender guts laced around a metal contraption.
As winter descends, you are protected by a roof of bricks and a blanket of wool.
But alas!
I live under a crumbling dirt roof, and a torn blanket of faith.
I rebuild my home, unaware of the trouble,
while you gloat in your chamber of protection.
Why should I suffer?
I am but a mouse, with the fur of fear,
while you are a human, with the mind of God.
Don’t I deserve your sympathy?
No, I don’t.
I deserve death, by the colossal, un-afraid, and pretentious mortal.
Because I am merely a mouse living in the world of men.
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This piece is the perspective of a mouse living amongst humans.