Bringing Home an Empty Cage

Bringing home an empty cage

Another cat gone from old age

Charlotte gone to be with brothers

Eli, Rusty and the others.

Pets are parts of hearts and places

Who, with our families, make up the basis

Of our homes, our kith, our kin,

Into our being we’ve let them in.

Pain at parting leaves us smarting

Crying, wrenching, from their departing

From our arms, our laps, our snuggles

Oh, how they made us forget our troubles.

Goodbye, dear Cat, we’ll miss you much

Your furs, your purrs, your eyes and such

Say Hi to kitties so soon you’ll see

Kitties now far away from me.

Dorothy D. Hagan

January 19, 2019