Omar Eldamsheety - Our Precious Cat

Some years ago
When I was a child
We lived in a small strange village
No cats exist in it.
Cats were living in all villages around it
But in that village
No cats at all
Why?
No one know
Dogs and rats,
but no cats
What should we do?
Rats are everywhere
free and happy
eat or just play
always they made troubles
Who will save us?
we asked hopefully
We need a cat
Only a cat can save us
A friend of my father
gave us his precious cat
mixed colored, white and orange
How beautiful it was!
A lovely male cat
It lived with us
It believed that
It is one of the family
Slept in our bed
Ate our food
And played with us
as brother,
not as our cat
We were so happy
But happiness time often is short
We had to travel for two weeks
We couldn't take him with us
With our neighbors we left him
after they promised to take care
of our precious lovely cat
When we returned to the village
with too much longing
we asked about him
simply they answered
sorry, it died
with too much sadness and pain
How?
we asked,
It refused to eat cats food
and refused to sleep on the ground
it went out the house
we found it dead
they answered.
Oh My God,
We searched for it
We found its body
beside a dead rat
With our love we Buried him
Goodbye our saver
Goodbye our precious.

Omar Eldamsheety

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