Not to Lose All!

                                                                                         Attribution: Zellmi

Image: Lost the Bone in the Water
Source: Wikimedia Commons (here)

You’ve heard of the dog in the manger

Which kept others at bay while it lounged

At a place not readily its domain

Just so others were deprived of its use

Not short on dog stories there’s another

Not unlike the one in the manger but close

Secured with a bone clenched between its teeth

Happily on the way home it crossed a brook

It spied its reflection in the water, bone and all

Thinking it was an easy picking for another bone

It opened its mouth to wrest at the other

Down dropped the bone and now it had none

And the moral of the story kids,

Be happy with  what you already have

As a wrong attitude might cause you to lose all

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