What If I'd Been Born a Mouse?

What if I’d been born a mouse?
Living in my little house,
A bed of grass, a bit of cheese,
A big blue sky, that’s all I’d need.

And what if I was made a wolf,
Running with my pack, aloof?
Whether alpha, beta, I don’t know,
But I know I’d never be alone.

And if a wild horse I’d been
Would I have come back home again?
Or kept on racing with my friends
The world so big, it has no end?

A chipmunk too, I’d like to be,
I’d stuff my cheeks with nuts, you’d see,
And scamper quickly to my lair
And store them for the winter there.

But even though these things I’m not,
I learn from them, they’ve taught me much.
Animals don’t judge, they live for now,
I feel close to them, need them around.