Ratcatchers Lament

The guilt, the betrayal I felt, her body lying there as I knelt I poisoned her, I poisoned her food and she took it and fed her brood She had done nothing to me, she was doing what nature had taught her I poisoned her and she poisoned her family, like lambs to the slaughter And the sorrow and the regret cascaded through my soul As I placed her down into the freshly dug hole I first saw her as she scuttled from behind a rock to sniff some fallen bird bread She was not very big for a Rat, I over reacted, now she is dead Fleas, decease, came the cries from deep down in my soul She looked so small and defenceless now as she lay in that hole Too close to my home and it cost her dearly Man playing judge and jury I told myself, I could never do that again I keep thinking, was she in pain She was just a small female Rat and a mother Lord I hope she did not suffer