1. Memories, For, When I Am. (Being edited 2024)

A new home

A New Home
A brief prologue of a cat

Mum said to take a box and some garbage out
I had no doubt you'd be there waiting for me or someone anyone
With a kind heart to open their doors to you

Though I may not have seen you at first
For lesser or for the worst
Eventually you did catch my eye

You were cold and damp
Without a warm place to go
I'd seen you many a time before
So I helped you in to the building you were under
Since it was raining more say drizzling out
But it's a good thing there wasn't any lightning or thunder

My brother told her about you
She said I was to come to your rescue
So I did

I got a towel for I could find nothing else
And since you were wet
I thought it fit the image of the situation
purr-fectly

You were on the steps inside
Where I left you
And hoped and thought you'd be

You didn't hiss or fuss at me
You simply let me wrap you up
And take you home

I put you down
Dried you off
So you'd be nice and warm

I hadn't known if you'd eaten or not
Since I'd been seeing you
For a while by now

I proceeded to search for the two cans
We had
That had been left to us
From someone we used to know

She was like you
But mum gave her up when we moved
In the end

You ate
You drank
You let us run our hands through your soft fur

I'd never seen someone
From outside be so friendly

I stayed up all night
Just to watch you
To make sure that
From a couple hours ago until now
That it wasn't your last breath

And so you wouldn't die
In my arms from being outside
For so much and so long

I didn't give myself rest
Until I knew you'd be ok

You like following me into the kitchen
By now we called you Asher
But I'll still call you whichever you like
Since mum said I couldn't call you Neneki
Or Daisuke

I gave some chicken salad to you
As a snack
Since I didn't know if you were hungry or not
Since you don't meow a lot

I decided to sleep after my dose of youtube
And I guess you did too
Because when I woke up
I found my asher stretched out
Asleep on the floor

It's been a day already
And I already miss you so
Though you lie on the arm chair
Asleep in front of my eyes

We can't keep you
Because mum already wants someone else

I've never seen her
But I know she is 2

I'll miss you
So dream your happiness
In the waking light
At least before we mew-ve you on
To someone else

Be strong
Be kind
Be mine forever
In the moonlit day
And sunlit night

This is not goodbye.....
.......yet

And so your family left you,
and I came to call you my own
just months later.