WHIMSEY

IF They Loved You ....

 

Should I keep my cat when she wants to go

When she walks around and cries all day

Then cries all night and pisses on the beds

 

I’ve explained about coyotes and the outside dread

To try and keep her close

But it is that which we fear, that she loves the most

 

How the kids will miss her, her meow and scratching post

She is home with us

But she walks around in pain, like a lost soul, an on-call ghost

 

She loves us, but will pine away to nothing if she isn’t freed

And am I really her protector

Or just a crushing bore, who closed the garden door

 

She says she doesn’t mind coyotes breathing down her neck

So long as she gets to live

To run and hunt, to smell the smells, to climb and play like there never was a lid

 

If she spends her life, locked safe in doors

She will be safe

But she still won’t live forever more

 

And when she is on the porch watching the sun

Will old age be mellow

Or a hollow tale of what might have been.

 

Oh, I am the kitty, hear me roar

And what is that?

It’s the lonely Tom who lives next door

 

PS - I chose this image to go with the cat thing as the flower looks a little like a Satellite Dish to me, and the message from the kitty to say, "Hey People, Are You Listening?". Obscure, tell me about it, even I didn't get it at first, and it's my stuff :).

 

From "The Book That Dreams"

 

© G P F for All images and text, please do not use without my express permission.

 

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