I share my room with the dead mouse

What now is his grave was once his house

Feeble lying, small and meek

Flys and maggots, on his corpse they eat

Ruffled fur, ears perked, undisturbed

When he died, he must have been perturbed

For now he lays on his side

Frozen forever, eyes peeled wide

Glancing at enemies only he had seen

Tiny paws, where they had been

Had once been tunnels that he knew well

Taking every sight and smell

Living as best that he could know how

I laugh at fate, because look at him now

Laying forever in a corner filled with dust

Forever to be covered with must

Rotten and eaten away

Till nothing but his bones remain

White and glistening, stripped away

Forever dead will this mouse lay

And as we sit, sealed in the same room

I feel the walls close in, now my tomb

With him in eternity I shall dance

For no good life will ever last

I will soon become just like him

My arm another death enclosed limb

My eyes become unseeing, sealed with glass

Because no good life will ever last