The Cat

The Cat

The cat walks across the keyboard,

pauses,

stares like it wrote an email,

saying, your life is pathetic,

I stare back,

coffee halfway to my mouth,

the dog snores,

dreaming of running somewhere,

I will never go,

the parrot squawks my name,

loud, urgent,

I answer politely,

it ignores me,

the fish blink,

goldfish of judgment,

the house alive,

chaotic, absurd,

like theater without scripts,

I laugh,

what else could I do,

the sun moves across the sky,

mocking my confusion,

maybe humans appear ridiculous,s

and fragile,

and silly,

and maybe the lesson,

is to surrender,

sit in the middle of it all,

and know it is perfect.