Under the home roof :
rascals
brigands
ruining honour
name
and legacies ancestral

The child next door :
sharp
bright
bringing succour
and joy
to father
to mother
generations unborn

“Ah !
Is not that someone’s child !”

Envious laments
grief and jealous wrath

on another’s child
called forth by one’s own child

at the passage of one
the envy of another

Unnatural swapping contemplated:
the dead for the live?
and the live for the dead?

or smother them both?