Because My Mother Loves Me

Because my Mother loves me
She made me as a tree

And when they broke my branches

My blood was flowing free

I felt the snap and crack

Of every single stick

And prayed for my Lady

To bring my death on quick 

Because my Mother loves me

She made me small and gray

To scuttle through the pantry

And sleep beneath the hay

Starving one cold winter

I was offered a morsel or two

I leapt with joy to eat it

Only to be stuck fast in the glue

I pulled my joints apart

Filled with fear and pain

Then gnawed my own feet off

And never was the same

Because my mother loves me

I swam the oceans deep

And with a joyful giggled

High above the water I would leap

Then one day the shining blue

Turned a sticky evil black

It took away the air and light

And I floated lifeless on my back

Because my mother loves me

I was wild and running free

Leaping over boulders 

And dodging every tree

Then my foot was caught

By a hidden metal maw

I howled in pain and sorrow

When it tore apart my paw

Because my mother loves me

She made me something new

I slept in the shade of the forest

Were all my siblings grew

On two legs now I ran

Where once there had been four

I swam alone in the ocean

But I used to swim with more

I now hunt my brothers

But only in their time

I do not let them suffer

As their pain is also mine

Because my Mother loves me

She gave me eyes to see

She put me here to suffer

So my mind could be set free