"The Cat in the Window "

 

"Cat in the Window "

by Greg Budig 

copyright 2020

The world outside your 

window is only an

 illusion to you. 

An image that has 

never been experienced 

or explored. 

The cat in the window 

wonders, maybe 

dreams of things 

that only a cat can 

dream of. 

Lazy as an 

August morning,

staring outside 

the glass. 

Taking time for 

a cat nap… or two.

Curled in a furry

black ball of 

pointed ears 

and whiskers. 

Life is so easy,

isn't it little kitty?

Eyes yellow green,

black soft belly that 

resists our prying 

hands.

You excel at resting 

in an almost 

amazing display of 

feline expertise!

You are unsurpassed.

The afternoon 

light passes 

through the 

winter window.

Warm against the frozen 

world that you gaze upon. 

A landscape of 

black and white with 

mounds of snow and 

stark, bare 

winter trees. 

You are not the first 

to sit here so proudly. 

There once was 

another cat who 

lived inside this house. 

He had found his way

through an open door one 

day and slipped silently 

into the nighttime world.

For years he prowled 

the neighborhood.

Chasing rabbits,

protecting the garden 

in our little backyard. 

But he never came 

home one morning. 

Who knows what fate

had in mind. 

 He is now a memory,

like a dream in 

the night. 

And now you are

 his successor.

The heir to his kingdom.

But you will never 

leave the castle. 

You will always be safe 

inside. 

For you are now 

the cat in the window. 

Gazing through 

clear cat eyes 

at a world  you may 

never know. 

THE END