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Black Cat Chivalry


Kleng

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I wrote this in 2011, 4 years before my cat and familiar, Toulouse, was born.

There is no real story behind the poem itself, as it was something I had decided to write one fall night, and thought it was just "magic in the air".

My cat, on the other hand, is quite another story...

He was one of three kittens born of a feral mother I had hand tamed over a course of months. By the time she had her kittens, she was comfortable enough to come and go from my house as she pleased (so long as the door or window was open). When her kittens were finally old enough to walk, she began bringing them to my back porch. As I was walking down the hallway one morning, two of the kittens had run, but one of them, the solid black one, just sat there, petrified, and looked up at me. His little blue eyes were so deep and intelligent, before I had even bent down to pet him, I could already feel the bond starting to form, and I fought it hard. I didn't want this kitten, I had already made up my mind to keep one of the others. But as I patted him, I could feel his tiny body shaking, and I wondered why he choose to sit and let me pat him when he could have run like the others. I considered that he was paralyzed with fear, but as I looked at him, I felt as if it were something more, maybe a test.

Days after that, I had caught all three kittens and had put them in my bedroom while my husband and I moved our things out of the house (we were renting). I tried to interact with them a bit, but since they were still so young I was met with unfriendly spitting and swatting. The black kitten was the only one who did not spit or swat, he instead was very still and even purred when I pet him. The others, when I finally did touch them, tensed up and growled. When it was time to take the one I was keeping and let the others go with their mom, I kept the black one. I fed him boar bacon. He sat in my lap on the ride to the new home.

He has kept me from suicide.

He has been my best friend.

My brother.

My familiar.

My rock when the anxiety gets bad.

He has done for me than most any human could ever hope to claim.

 

 

Black Cat Chivalry

11/23/11

 

 

There's magic in the air tonight.

I can sense the change in the breeze.

Can you feel it too?

Tell me you can feel it too.

Tell me you can sense the magic in the air tonight.

 

A haunting melody and a melancholic chant is all it takes.

That's all it takes to bring tonight to life.

 

Can you hear them calling?

Can you feel the magic calling out to you?

I feel like an addict.

I'm addicted to this Black Cat Chivalry.

 

Black cat.

Magic cat.

Look at what you've done.

I'm addicted to you.

 

There's magic in the air tonight.

I can sense the change in the breeze.

Can you feel it too?

Tell me you can feel it too.

Tell me you're the magic in the air tonight.

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