The rats ate grain
The rats ate chicken
The rats ate everything
Including the poor piper’s
Music
Because nobody would feed
A musician already broken
Making art of nothing.
So play for the rats
They like fun
And
Wander away to
The mountain sun
And learn
To play
And then go
Silent
So there
Rats will stay safe
And
Maybe?
The Townsfolk will
…
Pay?
Let the piper stay?
Aleviate their pain?
The piper looked back
But the Townsfolk said:
You have done
Nothing;
Get away.
Then broken piper played
For just themselves
And went back
To their
Rat mountain.
But the children:
They like fun
And
The song
Led them away to
The mountain sun
And they learned
To play
So there
Children stay safe
As they grow up.
Maybe
Now
The Townsfolk
Will properly
Explain.
Look at the story again?
Oh no
They always make
The piper the villain.
Hmph.
Fine, going back
Because:
The piper
Did not know
They missed one child
Already broken
Who remembers
Being left behind
By birth alone
And weeps
As an adult.
But:
The piper
Went back
To carry
That lamb
To safety.
I Am Who I Make Myself 