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stray cats and I have an agreement
I notice them because they enjoy being noticed and they notice me because I've been invisible cats understand the invisible its a language they seek and decry ambling through the narrower silent roads remaining small and away from prying hands and eyes (we) both acting against our nature though its our shared need to be loved to be touched we both have avoided the bowl avoided the comforts kept far from the warmth had hidden safety plans yet we remember the days when hands and loud voices insisted and overstayed directing our lives and our directions the memory's long and pinched we caught our share of tails... and yet we both understand it in the precision and persistence of uncertain certain thoughts a cat is not a beast his memory's made by accumulative circumstance and through experience wrought he's a singular person w capable of memorizing an entire book or a single page one who can recall all later and then store it away he's adaptable by necessity and favored by his Creator capable of constancy but reinforced by what he's made of never underestimate the cat nor likewise underestimate me we're creatures with twin genes human animals don't necessarily have nor do they believe in elements in the world until they've lived in chronic uncertainty I am part cat and I land on calloused soft paws shoes do not fit I've lost my feet crippled by cold winters and the persitence of time more comfortable in an alleyway weighing out my options my words before anyone's judgment I meet Stray Cats and I have an understanding do not pet us we are not yours for free and yet we are in ways beyond imagining in a darkness you cannot see for you lack the eyes and the heart to do it a fact and a hardness we live through yet rue it stray cats and I have an understanding why don't you..... LEGAL COPYRIGHT FOR THIS POET/AUTHOR MELISSA A. HOWELLS DATE AND TIME STAMPED NOVEMBER 23, 2021 11:26pm PACIFIC STANDARD TIME and also for this legally copyrighted and REGISTERED SITE TITLE: MELOO STRAIGHT FROM HER TILT-A-WORLD\ MAKE ALL YOUR THOUGHTS AND MEMORIES INDELIBLE. WRITE THEM DOWN. RE-EDITED FOR CLARITY...ADDED THE WORD STRAY...TO MAKE IT SIMPLER FOR THE PREVIOUS PERSON WHO DIDN'T "GET IT." iTS NOT IMPORTANT WRITERS/POETS FOR EVERYONE TO "GET YOU." WRITE ANYWAY. BE WHO YOU ARE IN SPITE OF WHAT OTHERS CHOOSE TO INTERPRET OR THINK. DATE/TIME STAMPED 1:00AM PACIFIC STANDARD TIME/ 12/4/2021 Vote for this poem |
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