Scampering off toward life’s forest
wily fox in hot pursuit
I, more than casual onlooker
as your steps affect lasting fate
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innocence may be your destruction
nibbling away at fresh grass
darkness lurks in the shadows
you look aware much too late
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what I watch from the screen door
hopes of holding back the rain
unheeded are warning’s whispers
lesson’s lost beyond garden’s gate
What lurks beyond the garden gate???