Life Lessens

Seems like yesterday

you caught me by the wrist

in the school hall.



But you only laughed

as my fist uncurled

my treasure -

Back-eyed White, stolen 

from the science lab - 

Please Sir, I saved her?



You allowed escape

on that occasion, let me

off without detention,

but I permitted myself to be recaptured 

a couple of years later - an experiment,

but we were inseparable -



till all of a sudden, you released me

again.



I accepted it at the time,

but later learnt how you'd succumbed

to a terrible malignancy -

just like my Stolen Treasure - gone.



And I'm afraid life might be

far too long under

unfavorable circumstances.