By Thomas Caterer
I see the pain in you, that I felt before too
it does get easier, you do become desensitised
eventually you must, or else you can’t play the game anymore
What you wouldn’t give to see that smiling face once more
or to hear their laugh again
sometimes the traces of their life and love are left in your dreams
you awaken to find them slowly receding as the day’s light chases your ghosts away
Responsible parents are those who buy their children some rodent
or other small mammal when they are young
to teach them life’s rules
and with tenderness as they cry over their pet’s lifeless corpse
you say ‘sweet child these are the rules, and there will be more deaths to come’
and they will understand that their eternal ‘I’ must change too one day
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