The Sao Tome Shrew

The Sao Tome Shrew waits

For when the world can begin anew 

The Sao Tome Shrew waits

For change that not it can do nor make

The Sao Tome Shrew are numbered at very few

And long past anyone’s care or view

Isolated and abdicated from its home

The Sao Tome Shrew must undergo sacrifice

In order to get back its homely paradise

Taken by humans with no intended malice

Yet all the same, the Sao Tome Shrew has lost its palace

Far ago, back far in the past

The Sao Tome Shrew thought itself destined to ever-last

Now cornered, and forced to fast

The Sao Tome Shrew grows hungry and weary

The Sao Tome Shrew is only noticed by Charon and his ferry

The Sao Tome Shrew weeps and roams

Glumly knowing full well it may never find its home

The Sao Tome Shrew goes on though

Hoping it merely has hit a low

Trudging through snow and bearing down hunger

The Sao Tome Shrew cannot afford any blunder

Perhaps by fate or irate luck

In having trudged through all the muck

The Sao Tome Shrew has been lead

To the place he has fallen down dead

The Sao Tome Shrew has seen a world anew

Where there is no shortage of Leaven

A happy place justly called Heaven

Not satisfied by the masterful mead 

and barely recognized for his noble deed

The Sao Tome Shrew finds he has a need

Stooping before Zeus, he began to plead

He wanted his old life back

And with it the accompanying strife

He wanted to enjoy the slim chance of returning to family life

Zeus allowed him to rise from the dead

The Sao Tome Shrew intent of finding his lost kindred

His body now not weak and his weary bones hard as teak

His form made not meek

He strode out to return to his loved place

He set out at a strong pace

Running home on his feet with a newfound grace

He knew the direction in which his home may lay

And set out in the direction that-a-way

He returned home to a Shrew family and Shrew friends

He made it his goal to dwell back in his hole home

He stood at his door

Awaiting to be greeted by his family of four

He heard a moan and a groan

Slowly the door opened and stood there his shrew children

They all shouted Daddy and pulled him into the Den

Where time slowed and his face glowed

Stood before him, was his wife

Having thought him dead, she happily wept

All together, the family soundly slept

The Sao Tome Shrew had made his own heaven.