![]() by Mary Brandolino ![]() In memory of all the bunnies we couldn’t save. |
I remember Easter Sunday![]() It was colorful and fun ![]() The new life that I’d begun ![]() In my new cage. ![]() |
I was just a little thing![]() When they brought me from the store ![]() And they put me on the floor ![]() In my cage. ![]() |
They would take me out to play![]() Love and pet me all the time ![]() Then at day’s end I would climb ![]() In my cage. ![]() |
But as days and weeks went by![]() I saw less of them it seemed ![]() Of their loving touch I dreamed ![]() In my cage. ![]() |
In the night outside their house![]() I felt sad and so neglected ![]() Often scared and unprotected ![]() In my cage. ![]() |
In the dry or rainy weather![]() Sometimes hotter sometimes colder ![]() I just sat there growing older ![]() In my cage. ![]() |
The cat and dog raced by me![]() Playing with each other only ![]() While I sat there feeling lonely ![]() In my cage. ![]() |
Upon the fresh green grass![]() Children skipped and laughed all day ![]() I could only watch them play ![]() From my cage. ![]() |
They used to take me out![]() And let me scamper in the sun ![]() I no longer get to run ![]() In my cage. ![]() |
Once a cute and cuddly bunny![]() Like a little ball of cotton ![]() Now I’m grown up and forgotten ![]() In my cage. ![]() |
I don’t know what went wrong![]() At the home I did inhabit ![]() I just grew to be a rabbit ![]() In my cage. ![]() |
But they’ve brought me to the pound![]() I was once loved and enjoyed ![]() Now I wait to be destroyed ![]() In my cage. ![]() |

House Rabbit Journal Volume III, Number 7, Spring 1996