PET RATS

If you could see the crystal

It sparkles in the flame

The dark and secret passageways

Beneath our own domain

A woman who swears they whisper

In the silent lonely hours

Of a coming plague on millions

To bring the whole world down

She’s raising pet rats

And always looking out

For signs of stray cats

The claws that hang about in darkness

In the blackness of the wallways

Under floorboards of the frame

March the endless armies

Hating ever mankind’s reign

A woman who swears they whisper

In something close to speech

A growing tide of glowing eyes

Ascending from a dream

She’s raising pet rats

And how she looks away

From the dawning morning

Where light will steal play from darkness

One night, there came a sound I’ve never heard

Shuffling out the backdoor

They’re moving in great herds

They’re weightless

She’s raising pet rats

And always looking out

For signs of stray cats

The claws that hang about in darkness

She’s loving pet rats-indifferent to their crimes

She’s loving pet rats-in the darkness of her mind

She’s loving pet rats-knows each infernal name

She’s loving pet rats through the flames

Lyrics by L. Poems  copyright 2002, all rights reserved