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One Can Of Tuna Fish…

Peace comes at a cost! Nothing truly is free. The price of gain’s always lost.

I know.

I’m a cat.

This story

reveals that

I gave up one

can of tuna fish

for a small

granted wish…

I should’ve been happy:

fed, loved in a great home. But bored, dissatisfied, I set out curiously to roam… Countryside living seemed exciting. To a cat, the wild was inviting.

One day deciding not

to come in after dark,

I set out for adventure

in a state-owned park.

I felt totally free:

running, climbing

without gate or collar.

There was no better timing.

The decision came quickly

it was now time to find me. After being kept most of my life, I needed room to just be! It was great after awhile.

When survival

proved taxing, eagerly

I returned home.

Not supposing myself gone for

more than a minute,

imagine the surprise seeing my spot

occupied with another pet in it!

Egad, what horrible surprise

discovering I’d been replaced

by a Calico Kitty and coming

back to a home it defaced…

oye, scratches here. Oh no, don’t tinkle there! Ammonia’s stench ruled through vanilla-lilac scented mists in the air! Thinking that quite enough they’d eagerly welcome me back, I purred sweetly believing my deck favorably stacked. I got in after a vigorous shower and a vet’s probing check. Phooey for fretfully fluffy feline competition! I wanted definitely right then and there to deck that intruding fuzzball right in it’s face but instead, I looked for opportunity to remove it by using my head.

Exhaustedly, I thought.

Opportunity didn’t knock.

After giving up, giving in,

fate finally visited my block.

Who would have thought

a lone can of tuna fish

held the only solution granting

then altering an insignificant wish…

Kitty soon took sick unable

to hold any kitten food down.

He lost weight making family

run frantically around.

Not knowing what to do

and with no cure in sight,

they simply gave up making

euthanasia plans that night!

My how fickle was this family: replacing me when gone too long, now talking of terminating Kitty because health suddenly went wrong!

It angered me that a pet’s life

around here was replaceable.

Feeling bad that I too plotted but

thankfully, wishes were untraceable!

True, I wanted that cuddly kitten to leave, not die

eventhough thoughts were fixated night and day.

Despite jealousy and hate, when push came to shove,

I didn’t mean for it to happen in such a horrible way!

I heard humans one night doing something called, praying on bent knees looking up asking for a relative’s recovery. I decided with nothing to lose, I’d proceed likewise utilizing prayer after stumbling onto its discovery. The idea came to me after vocalizing desires in prayer, Maybe Kitty could keep down what I had on my plate! A voice said, “be selfish.” Scratching, I blocked it right out not wanting any responsibility for an innocent’s ill fate!

Thinking about the tuna treat

I looked forward to each day,

How about sharing it with Kitty,

came to mind right away!

I nudged my treasured treat

over to Kitty’s smelly sick bed.

Offering it to him freely despite

screaming doubts in my head.

Finding hidden reserves

filling to capacity his left jaw,

Mother watched intently

before releasing an, “Aw! What a sweet caring Cat sharing your daily treat! For that in return there will be abundant goodies to eat!” I didn’t do what I did for a reward. I hated Kitty! I felt responsible for wishing him gone. What a pity it was the human’s God who helped me

when I couldn’t birth my own plot.

For relinguishing one can of tuna fish out

of gult, look what I gave up and then got:

Adoration from family, a clear conscience-

though now sharing the favorite pet’s spot.

Sacrificing one delicious can af tuna fish

meant I would gain after losing a lot!

I learned human’s God didn’t discriminate.

The man in the sky heard lowly little devaststed me-

a mere non-talking cat purring softly for a wish

eventually sparing a competitor illness setting him free!

Peace came at a cost! Nothing’s truly free. Gain’s price was won after I lost…

But really, did I lose?

I’d give up my can of tuna fish

over repeatedly if I had to

for truer understanding

and the chance to undo

a bad wish,

an evil thought

costing one can of tuna fish

but look what sacrifice bought!