Mousetrap

[11bravo]

I did not write this nor do I know who did I thought it's very appropriate.


A mouse looked through the
crack in the wall to see the
farmer and his wife opening a
package. “What food might this
contain?” He was devastated to discover
it was a mousetrap.

Retreating to the
farmyard, the mouse
proclaimed the warning.
“There is a mousetrap in the house,
there is a mousetrap in the house!”

The chicken clucked and scratched,
raised her head and said “Mr. Mouse, I
can tell this is a grave concern to you,
but it is of no consequence to me. I cannot
be bothered by it.”

The mouse turned to the pig and told
him, “There is a mousetrap in the house!”

The pig sympathized but said, “I am so
very sorry Mr. Mouse, but there is nothing
I can do about it but pray. Be assured
that you are in my prayers.”

The mouse turned to the cow who said,
“Wow, Mr. Mouse. I’m sorry for you.
But it’s no skin off my nose.”

So the mouse returned to the house, head
down and dejected, to face the farmer’s
mousetrap alone. That very night a sound
was heard throughout the house like the
sound of a mousetrap catching its prey.

The farmer’s wife rushed to see what
was caught. In the darkness the wife did
not see that it was a venomous snake
whose tail the trap had caught. The
snake bit the farmer’s wife.

The farmer rushed her to the hospital
and she returned home with a fever.
Now everyone knows you treat a fever
with fresh chicken soup, so the farmer
took his hatchet to the farmyard for the
soup’s main ingredient.

But his wife’s sickness continued, so
friends and neighbors came to sit with
her around the clock. To feed them, the
farmer butchered the pig.

The farmer’s wife did not get well. She
died; And so many people came for her
funeral the farmer had the cow slaughtered
to provide enough meat for all of them.

So next time you hear that someone is
facing a problem and think that it doesn’t
concern you, remember that when
one of us is threatened, we are all at risk.

We are all involved in this journey called
life. We must keep an eye out for one
another and be willing to make that
extra effort to encourage one another.

[Ceol na Mara]

This reminds me of the famous quote of Martin Niemoller:

"In Germany, they came first for the Communists, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist;
And then they came for the trade unionists, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist;
And then they came for the Jews, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew;
And then . . . they came for me . . . And by that time there was no one left to speak up."