the time is up

The mouse runs

The panic body eyes wild

Jumping occasionally

It can't see a way out

Once the holes were big

It could run in and out

Now it has grown fat

It finally gets trapped inside

The fear in its eyes

The mind works over time

The day has come

The raining season arrives

The smell of drowning

The smell of rain

It jumps up and down

There is no way out

The mouse stays

Pushing its head out of the hole

It is all it could do

Then the cat just bites it off

Its body struggles

The head goes with the cat

Finally it stays immobile

Death slowly registers its time