She’s been training us
now for years
to let go of the notion
that cats and people
have their own separate places.
We are tribe, she says,
we are herd.
Settles herself, insistent,
at bed or table,
defining them as shared spaces.
And as the years pass
we let go
more and more of difference,
of entitlement,
that ‘superior human’ stance.
Glad that this smart cat
and loving
has been willing to teach us
about connection,
we move with her now in that dance.
April PAD Challenge 30
Prompt: Letting go.
(The cat is Freya.)
there's a superior human stance. I've been cat-broken to know my lower place years ago. ;)
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ReplyDeleteThere's that funny saying, "dogs have owners, cats have staff." Thank you so much for pointing me over here to your very lovable poem!
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