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Purrsday Poetry: In Memoriam – My Cat Victor – an Elegy

Posted on by Purrsanthema
05
May

O Lord, a life has slipped from me too soon!
The wound is near and new and red and raw.
In hours to come, in tears from night to noon,
The realness of the loss will grow to gnaw.

When no one listened I shared tears with him!
When no one held me holding him I cried!
Somehow, I never felt, so soon, a hymn
Would have to be composed because he’d died.

So who can tell just who we love the most,
Or who in troubled hours can make us strong:
Sometimes the one who strengthens us the most
Is neither human nor alive for long.

Here Victor lies: life was too soon withdrawn
From my fool Tabby: thus the dear cat’s gone.

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More of my poetry can be found at: https://allpoetry.com/Purrsanthema Humans may know me as Anissa Nedzel Gage.  In addition to poetry, I'm an artist and cartoonist, samples of that work can be viewed at: https://dnedzel.wixsite.com/website and https://dnedzel.wixsite.com/anissanedzelgage Some of my images are available on t-shirts, coffee mugs and throw pillows at: http://tee.pub/lic/8ime6HjdIic

5 thoughts on “Purrsday Poetry: In Memoriam – My Cat Victor – an Elegy”

  1. Mary McNeil says:

    So sorry for the loss of your Victor. My Moochie just left six weeks ago- not yet five. Too soon indeed,

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