Poem "What I Learned From My Cat"

NOTE: As with all poems, I suggest you read it OUT LOUD. It helps you to enjoy & understand it (and my poetry can use all the help it can get). L-L

"What I Learned from my Cat"

~ by Laura-Lee Rahn

I learned something while watching my cat.

I discovered where my heart is at.

For years we've shared our home

But part of me is still alone.

 I can't make It love again,

my Heart who knows no friend

And I don't know why.

But I do know I try.

Yet part of me's been made

To only be afraid.

From those who went away? 

From those my heart was betrayed?

You shouldn't pay the cost

for those I loved, then lost.

That's so unfair to You,

Who's been nothing to me but true.

Even though not fair

maybe You will my heart repair

when You're making  "all things new"

My fresh heart I can give to You.

And to see in snowy tracks

No thing between us lacks.

Though now a closed door still

Oh, my heart; It's stubborn will.

Yet I know within my mind

There is love of a lifetime kind.

Inside I'm a stone grown cold,

But may I be so bold?

Knowing what others cannot see,

Because Someone gave ALL to me.

Once separated from my Brat,

I still learn from my cat.

Amidst the physical ache

I found lots of my heart left to break.

~~ January 2016

Alberta, Canada

Stop Sweeping Under the Rug ... It's Getting Too Crowded Under There

"Despair" is not a good or fun or nice thing to have to live through. BUT there was a time when if you were a Christian and you were "suffering" people told you there was something WRONG with your faith. (Like you might be hiding "secret sin" because God actually wants you to be rich and happy ALL the time).

Well, a LOT of people have re-vamped their attitude on suffering. Not even every Christian minister will tell you that God doesn't want you to suffer. So maybe it's time to take another look at "Despair" too. Just like "Pornography" or "Wife Beating" or a million other things that Christians face COMPLETELY ALONE. Because we are definitely NOT "cutting it". And it's not good to pretend everything is fine, ... when it isn't.