Chess Cat

An ode to my best friend, whose cat has to have surgery to remove his eye, to cheer her up.

Chess Cat

The ginger ninja,

Slinking through shadows,

Dissipating through darkness.

Streetlamps cut through the grey,

the bleak disappearing with dawn.

Her silent soldier,

So easily bribed with fish and

D-R-E-A-M-I-E-S.

Saunters through an alleyway of

Trees, shrubs shadowing him.

With stealth,

He slinks looking

at a Wren.

The Wren knows this felinity,

With generosity

He leaves her on her branch with her babies.

Returns to base where.

A warm b e d

awaits

And warm love too.

His mistress knocks over her piece,

The knight, the bishop, rook

Her famous pirate eyed

twinkled toed

Kitty Cat.

Sits on the chess board