Norman Baines Poet Free verse

Small Certainties of Cats

Sun on a chair, an open window, food put down,
small certainties that are the matter of their lives.

If they are capable of expectation it is this:
that everything will stay the same.

So we let in the morning sun
and put down food;
a window open all the time,
and everything remains the same.

We know that there will be a day
of illness, pain and fear
and fear of death 
and death.

Within that larger certainty
we take some comfort
from their constant day to day,
sustain small certainties:

sun on a chair, an open window, food put down.
We live in their small certainties,
the larger one deferred.

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