Old Shadow The Cat

Her whiskers in her prime years dark have turned a silver gray Old Shadow the black persian cat has known a better day She has not caught a rodent or bird for somewhile now this once nimble beast of prey No longer what she used to be that's life as some might say. When she gave birth to three kittens going back ten years ago She was taken to the vet for to be desexed by her former owner Joe She has been with Kate for three years now old kate is eighty three And for each other it does seem they are good company. Hunting for rats and mice and birds now too much for her indoors she mostly stay And on the sofa for many hours in a deep sleep she lay She is not the cat she used to be back in her glorious prime Another victim like us all of the father of time. On the sofa old Shadow lay and as she sleep she snore She has not caught a rodent or a bird for a year or maybe more For every life form in the World there is a final Fall And us Humans are no different old age comes to us all.