Love Poem: A Mouse Like Me
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Written by: Bryan Norton

A Mouse Like Me

When I was young,
When I was small,
I didn’t doubt,
Love was about,
Nothing at all.

But as I grew,
Where the river runs fast,
I clung to the things,
I rung from the rings,
Of my childhood past.

In my Father’s house,
On my Father’s face,  
Was a mountain so high,
I would fall off and die,
If I stepped out of place.

Oh, what is a man,
But a very small boy,
When the going is tough,
And I cry, that’s enough,
I still reach for a toy.

I have to be me,
I have to be strong,
To build my own house,
And still  be a mouse,
For right or for wrong.

I have to true,
To be all I can be,
Whether Kraken or clam,
Or the mouse that I am,
I have to be me!