Little mouse, I envy you.

• Artist: Akai Chou no Koe
• Description: For point of context, mice don't live too long. They either live for two years (as a pet) or less (in the wild).
  
  This poem was born of the fact and melancholy.
• Date: 08/07/2024
• Tags: little mouse envy melancholy freeverse

She looked at a mouse

Wondering why her existence

Couldn't be as short


she envied the mouse

did the mouse envy her, too?


Can mice even feel envy?

she didn't know


And she knew she wouldn't know

as she's not a mouse.