The Life Of Benjamin Cane & Other Stories

Benjamin cane

This is a story about Benjamin Cane

Who was kind and civil but becoming insane,

He lived in a house where he mostly hid,

As a scared and frightened ten year old kid,

He stayed in his bedroom distressed everyday

And wasn't even noticed on his birthday

He thought "Why was I even put on this earth,

What is this torment and unloving worth?",

He lived alone with his horrible mum

Who questioned how he had ever become,

The person she hated was her son Ben

She just wanted to live on her own again,

Such dreadful news she wanted to arrive

Telling her Ben was no longer alive

Praying and hoping that he was to drop dead

So she need not have to kill him instead,

She planned many ways for that he could die

She thought "Oh well I might as well try"

I definitely want the boy to be dead

My anger and thoughts are obsessing my head,

Little did she know Benjamin was smart

And knew what she was up to, right from the start,

Kept in his room he made a machine

Which would stop his mum from being so mean,

It helped that Ben had one small friend

But sadly their time was to come to an end,

He liked to experiment on an un-owned cat

Who stayed in his room becoming quite fat

He was black and fluffy, the cat was called Mart

And now he was about to swap his good heart

He knew if it worked the cat would turn mad

This would make the young boy rather quite sad,

But It was something which would make things right,

As his mum would become nice and polite

One night when the sky turned incredably dull

He made sure that it was aimed at her skull

An invisible laser which would swap their hearts

One at his mum and one at poor Mart,

A couple of seconds and it was done

Then he waited for the rise of the sun,

Then next morning when Ben was to wake

His mum was there with a milkshake

"Ben my dear we're going to be late

we're going the zoo isnt that great"

Ben just stood there, shaken and smiled

As he was now a happy, normal young child

It worked, his mum didn't want him dead,

Once in her life she loved him instead.

It was the first time he was allowed outside

And sadly again slowly denied

What stood in his way was the cat called Mart

Who was horrible and possessed by his mum's heart.