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orange heartbreak
There’s a dead cat on the side of the road. It doesn’t belong to me, but I feel for it. Orange, long haired, kitten. Someone might have loved it once. Though, more truthfully, it (probably) was never loved…it was for all intents and purposes a barn cat. It’s life lasted three or four months at best & now it doesn’t have to know the pain of being hungry & cold in the winter. There will be another cat just like it a year from now. It didn’t impact anyone in any way. Only, I saw it- as it died - it’s yellow eyes shining in the headlight of my car - maybe it was already dead, or maybe I witnessed it’s last breath as my car drove by. Maybe it was terrified, as moments before someone else, someone who doesn’t swerve for deer, frogs, turtles & woolly bear caterpillars, hit it…like this cat didn’t deserve a chance in the world.
[The intention is to understand. To live. To love. To breathe. To cry. To be the epitome of, “No Day But Today.” To do this for no one but myself….]
I will pass by this cat today. My heart will break a bit. (But) We move on, god help us, god forgive us.
