A cat walks away from a cruel owner. |
CHOOSE YOUR BATTLES ** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** consequences follow their dilemmas milk and honey to a curious cat it was easy once when he was young staring back at evil eyes now it got him only less milk and honey he knew when the man was going to take his things away his mouse-toy his soft bed the inside of the house it doesn't take much to throw a cat sideways into a cold night's garbage bin but there are battles for wandering cats even ones not homeless for he had a home just wasn't wanted he knew of rains so hard they soaked his whiskers down so that he couldn't test the winds of newer storms he knew of snows so hard they froze his lashes up framing blue eyes forming crystals that lit the way at night when the streetlights hit just right he would beg to come in soft whimpers first on the windowsill then painful guttural cries a frozen paw stuck to glass the man would peer back laugh from the other side of an icy sheet of glass that separated them then closed the curtains closing off any last chance for his toys or warmth that he used to remember before the man forgot how to treat a cat consequences follow their dilemmas milk and honey to a curious cat his appetite changed he knew there was more he knew it wasn't only humans who choose their battles he walked away this time for good something told his frowning whiskers in the wind he wouldn't be missed he chose his consequence to leave this dilemma behind thought of the mouse-toy as his only loss these things good cats will eventually do once they know they can never win the war |