He comes to me sometimes.
\nEvery now and then, a tap on my shoulder,
\na whisper through the door.
\nI remember watching the light dim in a cat’s eyes,
\nsmoothing his fur one last time, and turning to him.
\n“Did he feel pain? Does he forgive me?”
\nAnd he merely smiles, and turns away.
\nHe always had the answers. I held all the questions.
\nI have given him gifts through the years,
\nblessed him with my children, cried with my flowers.
\nBut in the end, though the children grew old in his arms,
\nand the flowers faded to dust in his hands,
\nin the end he received them all, tokens of my love
\nin the many small and broken things.
\nThat life has always loved death, for the beauty of the temporary,
\nthe mortal, and forgotten. In his arms, forever, eternal. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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