EULOGY FOR A KITTEN

Is there someone missing you or were you on your own?
Did someone care about you or leave you all alone?

I hope you didn’t suffer, though I dare not think of that.
You were just a little kitten, not yet a grown up cat.

You did not know of worldly things and so you had no fear
When you walked where traffic went, and maybe did not hear

The car that came around the curve and did not see you there
I doubt the driver even stopped. Perhaps he did not care.

As I came upon the road which was your final place,
It broke my heart to see you there and tears rolled down my face.

I stooped and gently picked you up and placed you in my arms.
I cried for you and told you there would be no further harm.

I brought you home and placed you underneath a backwoods tree
Where nature would embrace you and your spirit could run free.

Tribute to a silver tabby kitten found on the road today,

now safely at rest in the woods behind my home.

Kady 2008