I Don’t Love Cats

It’s not that I love cats

But the cat next door

Looks at me every morn

Lovelorn

It’s a stray 

That came from far away

A distant land

I once knew

Perhaps we were friends 

In that remote land

Perhaps we shared a meal

Of fish and chips, and tasty eel

When she soaks in the sunshine 

She tucks her tail in - divine 

And lets loose her paws

Hanging - what a sense of belonging!

Today she’s not looking at me

I don’t know why 

Today she’s lost in a deep thought 

About the land she left and the fish

We caught!

I still don’t love cats!