Massive (Notevember 2023, #29)

Great Spirit of the Great Beyond
Whose spacious skin by stars is stippled
Whose merest breath upon the Pond
of Time doth make majestic ripples –
Here I am, your humble servant
Every night, your Word I preach
My devotion ever fervent.
Hear me now, as I beseech:
Every year of my existence
I have wandered, far and wide
Gladly I have gone the distance
Head and tail held high in pride
I have yowled and I have whispered,
I have mewed and hissed your Word
So that each and every whiskered
individual must have heard
All this, I have done to serve you
All to sanctify your Name
To each cat within your purrview
To the feral and the tame.
I have but one life remaining
Having spent the other eight
At long last, my vigour draining
And my hour growing late
Know my single supplication
As I leave life number nine:
Make of me a constellation
That I may forever shine
As reward for how I’ve acted
Let me rest upon your fur
I’ll lay down, my claws retracted
And pass on without demur
I can go in peace, if knowing
this will be my final task
Carry sunlight, ever-glowing,
in which other cats may bask