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OLD TOM
“God help the
outcasts, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, God Help the Outcasts
It was a bitterly cold and dark delta morning Which truly matched my very sombre mood I was in yet another devastated neighbourhood Helping to distribute bags of dog and cat food A sudden horrifyingly sad lament Broke the eerie early morning calm I looked down the dead deserted street And saw him lying under a downed palm He was very emaciated and terribly weak This old tom cat had truly been left behind As I sadly walked up to his dark hiding place My heart broke when I saw that he was blind It was evident that he had been attacked By a pack of starving roaming canines He had numerous bleeding body wounds Life after Katrina for him had not been kind I knelt down in the mud and dirt with him And let this pathetic creature sniff my arm Then I gently stroked his filthy bleeding fur Trying to assure him that I meant him no harm I also offered him some food and water But he was too sick and he quickly declined And I wondered how many others just like him In the very dark days ahead that we would find But old Tom seemed grateful for some company He huddled closer to me with very faint painful cries So I picked him up and I held him gently in my arms And with one last heartbreaking sigh this old cat died I buried this blind old creature Beneath that uprooted palm tree And this dark New Orleans morn Was truly the saddest one yet for me As I sombrely drove off in my old truck My heart and my soul felt as dark as the night And a feeling of remorse about modern morality Filled my troubled thoughts with his kind’s plight These days we seem to care very little About other life forms on our planet And I sadly mourn our loss of reverence Since life should never be taken for granted I also sadly know that many will haughtily proclaim What’s the big deal – old Tom was just a cat not a man But I believe that we have failed miserably as His caretakers In God’s very ancient compassionately designed Creative Plan
©2006, Ed Kostro
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