Dear gentle cat who loves eveyone he meets
What do you think when you look at me
When you smell my face do you smell the lies I’ve told big and small
Or
When you push your head against my hand
Do you feel the wrong I’ve done with it
The things I’ve stolen, the hits I’ve landed
When you plop down next to me do you
Feel the presence of all who have sat there prior
Do you feel the emptiness of the spaces in my room
Where ones who have now past once sat and laughed
When I scratch your cheeks
Do you know I’ve not been the best me I could have been
Do you know I’ve done wrong
Do you know I am only human
Or do you look at me with those big marble eyes
And see every time I’ve done something nice,
Do you see the groggy mornings were you wake me to feed you
The hours spent laying together as I talk about nonsense
Do you only see the good I am, and understand the bad is only part of me
Tell me cat
Tell me please, what do you see, everytime you look at me