C & K

Kitty Distraction

two by the river
a hero ready to fight
something creeps closer
distracted by the pussy
the hero’s hamartia

wispy sun-filled day
a boxer and fresh coffee
fumes from the tabby

The puddle splashing
She loves to jump for the leaves
a jovial soul
As the years passed, she slowed down
The urge to Heel warmed my heart

a paw to the flag
meowing the national anthem
a fluffy patriot

I move along the memory lines –
A rosy filter fills me with nostalgia.

Those days before technology –
watching movies with the parents,
and listening to cassette tapes.

I move above the memory lines –
all the filters fall away to reveal

Brown.

The gloaming fades slow
into the cloudy darkness
where there are no stars

The whispering night
scintilla of loneliness
too far from our home

A dream from space,
watching the Earth from the heavens.

Insignificant in size,
wars and genocide ravage the planet.

Up here is the quiet,
a place for contemplation and dreaming.

A jolt from the cat,
the reality of humanity fills the room with

Our Sadness.

The sky is full of AI,
you cannot remember the sun and the sky.

A collection of before,
all is regurgitated into the producer of myth.

For a moment longer,
my mind strays to a sunset of fading colours.

And, the remembering –
our suffering compounded within the absence.

Alone with thoughts of wars and the sun,
the one human I cannot forget pops into my head

A beautiful, mad mess of character vagaries,
shacked up with some designer labelled Oligarch

All the thoughts of one human seem soft,
the wind picks up, and the leaves change my season

eyes to the starscape
stardust falls on my glasses
the moon, they appear