The Mousetrap

In the farmer’s house, on a quiet night,
A little mouse was filled with fright.
The farmer had set a cunning trap,
And danger whispered through every gap.
She thought, “I won’t give in to fear,
I’ll seek my friends, the ones I hold dear!”

She ran to the chicken, the sheep, the cow,
“A deadly trap - it’s set somehow!
It’s meant for me, but you must see,
It could bring sorrow to you and me!”
But they just laughed and turned away,
“It’s your concern, not ours today.”

The mouse returned and hid in despair,
The moonlight cold, the silence bare.
But soon that trap - it snapped by chance,
A venomous snake was caught in its dance!
The farmer’s wife came in the dark,
The serpent struck - a fatal mark.

To heal his wife, with trembling hand,
The farmer made a chicken’s broth so grand.
Then neighbors came, their hearts to feed -
He slaughtered the sheep to meet the need.
And when grief stayed and wouldn’t flee,
He killed the cow for the company.

The little mouse looked on, amazed,
Her tiny eyes in sorrow glazed.
“How strange,” she whispered, “Can’t you see?
Their fate was woven along with me.”
And so it goes, as life will show -
What touches one, will touch us all.

Don’t say, “That’s not my pain to bear.”
We’re all connected — everywhere.

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Here's a link to the song:

https://disk.yandex.ru/d/WsmcFgjYePGh0w

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This song in Russian via the link:

http://stihi.ru/2024/08/25/5378