The Rabbit and the Flea

"I wouldn't want to live forever,"
said the rabbit to the flea.
"Being closed in a round of the finite
makes everything more vivid,
the wheel of the world more immediate,
time more precious.
Still..."

"It would be nice to have a little more time,"
said the flea, understanding quite well
what the rabbit was getting at.
"Looking back on the way I lived my life
I feel I might have improved on some things."

"Yes," said the rabbit. "What might have been does nag at one."

"Yet I wouldn't be the flea I am today
if not for those hard earned lessons.
No one promised it would be easy."

"It never is, it never is," agreed the rabbit. "Life is full of snares."

"And flea baths," remarked the flea.

"Quite so."