this living thing is gone

How can it be
You were alive!
Just a little bit ago.
But now eyes closed
so still you lie
A place I do not know.

How can it be
where there was life
Bright eyes and a heartbeat.
Now that is gone
I say goodbye?
A thing so incomplete.

How can it be
I gave you love!
How does a loved thing leave?
These questions all
come raining down
Distractions as I grieve.

How can it be
with warmth and care
This living thing is gone.
Yet though this aches
to love you was
A sliver of the dawn.




for my sister, who rescued a stray kitten that died this morning.