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(Context: My cat named Tachi or Tachibana ran out of the house and was lost. She still is, but when I found out, I wrote a poem about it.)

Would I have named you any different
If I expected you to leave us soon?
No.
The name fits you,
Your three legs and strange air-licking
Thing you do.

There is always the fear that you'll never come home.
I know I left you,
But I have never stopped loving you.
Come home, Tachi.
I want to see you hop around the kitchen floor
And meow as if you're dying for food.  

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