The 13 Senior Cats
A blissful knell rings
The intrinsic happenstance comes forth
Each tail a peculiar labyrinth of stories they have come to bring
Furling the vesture of the youth of before
The sleuthing of unmooring the harbor ensues
A cosmological telecast of what the frames can’t minimize, perpetual purposes to pursue
They crossed the bridge to swing above creeks
Ripples of fluorescent waters where they see their reflection
Henceforth the jumped fence, they brave the unknown
Each diverting to foreign roads at differing peaks
A pictured childhood scene flutters before the time that has flown
Time cracks the mind, the body, don’t let it maim the soul with indentations
A bittersweet exclusion from the eyes to an expansive, forevermore venturing
A new chapter that will run across the thaw and remembering
The turning walked in on quiet feet
Untethered and bearing witness to the sudden fleet
New faces will cry while others decay
Some will fade while others stay
Pages will turn after another
You will curtail to the bone crush and how you will prevail
A bookshelf of the most poetic life awaits them
Inside, the phantom memory echoes of belly laughter below morsels of twinkling light
To an enchantress morass habitat
Lighting a lantern to doorways, running barefoot, scattering little wishes like seeds in sweet airs in reinventing skies, arrows anointed with quickening hues
To be passed on with the endearments that will last so long
Long live the ones that now look back through the halls towards an unwritten future and may a million tomorrows await
