The Miracle of Life...
"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 "Mom, 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,
Mom 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 "Momma
Kitty" now shes 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 wont live
here long!
but deep
inside of Momma Cat, this time
something's
wrong.
Too young,
too small, too often bred now nature's
gone awry,
Momma
Kitty feels it too and 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"?
Barry
Taylor, DVM
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