12/03/07
“Ode To George”
In childhood memories you exist.
A golden halo hovers o’er top your head.
My age fourteen, our fate did twist,
halo intact….. yet you are dead.
I hear your heart beat, I feel your purring on my cheek.
I remember you like a pillow, warm and soft, always there.
Always my best friend, now you are my furry angel and my guide.
Please George, take me to a place where I am not weak.
Remind me of the possibilities I used to believe were there.
Show yourself to me in my dreams. I miss you, you mustn’t hide.
My dear, how I do need you so.
My first loyal love.
In my heart, I’ll never let you go….
nor in my head, just above.
You and I must have been meant to be.
Must have loved each other in another life.
I, an outcast…. you, my faithful cat.
T’was the Salem Witch Trials, I do believe.
How much this life resembles our former life.
Similar yet different versions of this and that.
Oh, my sweetest, most purrrfect friend…..
you shall remain in my heart ’til the end of the end of the end.
2007 © L.J.B.
