(A poem inspired by the story “The Hermit and the Two Maggots)
There was this hermit who lived in the slope
Whose only desire is to give the world hope.
Just outside his cave there lived two maggots
Whose only desire is to travel the world.
Then one day they met, the maggots then plead
To turn them into humans and the hermit agreed.
And so they set out and lived among men
To farm and to trade wherever they went.
The two became rich and traveled the world
While the hermit just watched in his own little world.
The two soon forgot the promise they made
And became one of those who do bad and deceive
The time has come for the hermit to settle
The problem that cropped up and be in the middle
He reminded the maggots of the path they should take
But for the two creature, to change is too late.
And so they returned to where they had come
On the ground in the forest away from everyone.
The hermit now realizes it is hard to make a deal
With maggots like them who refuse to be real.
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