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by Barry Taylor D.V.M.
"Come quick, come quick" their mother said
"the time is getting
near."
She feels that when the kittens come
the children should be here.
She told them that a big orange Tom
took
'Kitty' as his wife,
"It's wonderful, a gift from God,
the miracle of life."
At half a year young 'Kitty'
feels
too painful and too scared
to appreciate six miracles,
blind eyed and yellow haired.
But she knows these lives depend
on her
and nature tells her how,
and as she cleans them, children ask
"Mum, can we go now?"
But now and then for
six more weeks
the children visit her
to play with six new magic toys
made of life and fur.
The six weeks
pass, the newness gone
and new homes yet unfound,
Mum bundles up six miracles
and takes them to the pound,
where
lovingly, with gentle hands
and no tears left to cry,
the shelter workers kiss them once
and take them off to die.
And
'Mumma Kitty', nows she's called
mourns her loss and then,
she's put outside, and of course,
she's pregnant once
again.
Dad tells 'Kitty' STOP THIS NOW
or you won't live here long!
but deep inside of Mumma Cat,
this time,
something's wrong.
Too young, too small, too often bred
now nature's gone awry,
'Mumma Kitty' feels it too as
she
crawls off to die.
She too is freed from this cruel world,
and from her time of strife.
How harsh the truth,
how high the price,
this 'Miracle of Life'
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