Oh darling cat,
Can’t you hear me calling
Are you wandering wondering
What in the world you did
To suffer so severely?
Oh darling cat,
Can’t you hear me crying
Are you silently starving
Cold wet weary and wondering
Which direction to wander now?
Oh darling cat,
Can’t you hear me calling
Can’t you feel me crying
Why in this wet cold weary dreary world
Can’t you feel me here
Silently suffering in fear and care.
Oh darling Symphony cat,
Sun of Concert
Moon of my misery
I’ve watched waited wide-eyed
Since you vanished from the stoop
Clinging to hope
You will return –
I’ve prayed.
Oh darling cat,
I can feel you calling crying wandering wondering
Lost wet weary cold hungry frightened
I can feel you running away
From loud noises and voices and bitter-scented
Strangers.
I can feel you hiding cowering in
Bushes shivering shaking dying
Alone.
© Susan Lynn Gesmer, The Cat Poems, 1980