The Piper of Hamlin

Do you hear the music?

Seductive ‘ringing little bells ‘

Day and night

He is singing for the rats

Rat-singer

Pay him his due

“Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s,

And unto God the things that are God’s”

Else he will sing

The child in us will be stolen

None left to say “The Emperor is naked”

The doors remain barred, for

“Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children

We will never enter the kingdom of heaven