Papago's Passing

Recently my closest and dearest friend lost one of her favorite cats. She knew the end was coming but that never makes loss less. I grieve with you and know that your tears are from the heart.

Papago’s Passing
By Aramis Thorn – July 16, 2005

Our calico hunter, sleek and demure,
Slipped away the bounds mortality,
Leaving behind human mourners unsure,
Of how to carry this finality.
Having fought for life against blight and age,
Improved movement and energy gave thought,
That our friend might yet have time upon this stage,
To bird and mouse and share of what was caught.
On the stoop, no more barely allowed strokes,
Or talks of news from the surrounding wood.
An earthly lingering sadness evokes
Hope that in wisdom the Creator would
Have a peculiar secret realm he keeps,
For the mouse police who forever sleeps.