Fading Paws Goodbye

(meow) Your empty bowl sits by the wall

No heavy footsteps in the hall

I watch the sun slide down the floor

And wait for you beside the door (meow-w-w)

Where did you go,

my constant friend

Did our quiet summer have to end

Now the house is cold and wide

With this heavy

ache inside

I found your woolen winter thread

Left forgotten on the unmade bed

I curled around it in the dark

And listened for a single

spark

Even the birds outside the pane

Sing a slow and gray refrain

Everything is out of tune

Underneath this lonely moon (ahhhh)

Just a shadow on the rug

Where we used to

curl up

snug (purrrr) (meow)