Ode To A Mouse lyrics

Living silently in our midst

An instant, a shadow's flicker

Quaking, skittish in proximity

Opportunist of substainance

Such a tenuous trembling life

Denizen destructive pleats a nest

Competition's caste, a fickle fate

This common carrier of disease

Doomed to desperate dismay

Days that are now tallied

Perchance to squeak

Ere a snapping, a sickly end

And then to squeak no more