~ Buddy Bear's Cats' World's Verse and Things ~

©1999-2009, Roy York, Sr, "KnightOwl" aka The Wizard they call "Sergeant Pop"

This page updated April 1st, 2009. -- Contact the Webmaster to report all errors.

~ Baggage ~

WEBMASTER'S NOTES:

         Here is a poem we had stored in our files some time before adopting our baby kitten, Buddy Bear.  One evening, as I was working on a Web page of "The Wizard's World of Cats", I came across  a number of Cat poems, and my attention was immediately drawn to this one.  As I re-read it, I thought of the little kitten we had recently found and brought home to raise as our own.  It reminded me of the many cats and kittens that are either taken back to their original homes, uncaringly given away, turned out to fend for themselves, or just abandoned on the side of a road, every day, for one sad reason or another.

         If you are contemplating adopting a kitten, or even a grown cat, please read and remember well, this verse from a 'Newly adopted pet.'  Remember, contrary to old country beliefs, Cats, and other pets, have feelings too, and they need the one thing most important in all creatures lives; love! Please don't abandon your pets.  Don't take one home unless you want, and love it, and are ready to give it a 'forever home'!

~ The Webmaster ~  

Now that I'm home, bathed, settled and fed,

All nicely tucked in my warm new bed,

I'd like to open my baggage

Lest I forget,

There is so much to carry-

So much to regret.

Hmmm ..... Yes, there it is, right on the top

Let's unpack Loneliness, Heartache and Loss,

And there by my leash hides Fear and Shame.

As I look on these things I tried so hard to leave -

I still have to unpack my baggage called Pain.

I loved them, the others, the ones who left me,

But I wasn't good enough - for they didn't want me.

Will you add to my baggage?

Will you help me unpack?

Or will you just look at my things -

And take me right back?

Do you have the time to help me unpack?

To put away my baggage,

To never repack?

I pray that you do - I'm so tired you see,

But I do come with baggage -

Will you still want me?

~ Evelyn Colbath ~

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