Costly Tale- Make a Poem Contest

was a garden unloved not many flowers memories run deep and were buried there here children used to play in summer showers a cat stalked looking absurd with an irritable stare we caught this moggie stalking a tiny mouse was hiding away in the iris bed not caring one iota that a cat was about he laid down to snooze resting his head suddenly he heard the thunder of paws jumped up with a start through a window ran landed on the gas meter which was old beyond years broke off the pipe, was a big bang an engineer was called a man heard the blast an evil smell emits the air was a genial man with a happy smile costly job this, to make a repair. the mouse was stunned and lying there gave his chest a rub a generous thought i appreciate that the little mouse said excellent said the repairman as a remedy he sought remember all no matter large or small look where you land when you take a fall took me forever to write this penned on 6/7/2016