WHAT A MICE EXPERIENCE !

Memories flashed, my childhood ruminating in repeats,

Days of  rented houses and the attached hollow attics,

Rent free quarters for the tiny rodents and the civets,

Creeping moves, the nightmares spoiling my dreams.

 

Pet cat saved their moves a bit, civets escaped forever,

Yet I had a bother, to bury their half eaten carcasses,

Concrete houses dissolved my problems thereafter,

Resurfaced, from a researching nephew from states,

 

Workaholic, spent more time with mice than his kids,

Specialized in kids, yet spent most of his time in labs,

Thrilled as he became the head, we too were joyous,

Fruits of his hard labor, his mood was beyond words.

 

Wondering  you may be, why all this, with a weird title,

Beaming with  his camaraderie on flight, he revealed,

His lab in his flight too with six dozens of mice in mettle,

Had a real shock, pinched my skin to revive me instead.

 

Rewriting the proverb, I was dumbfounded in disbelief,

One man’s poison, now another man’s food in surmise,

His bread and butter, dissecting them for a better relief,

Was despising my past childhood with those little mice.