To the cat that never got enough love I am sorry I failed to care for you and protect you.
I loved you since you were left on my doorstep and abandoned by your mother.
I gave you all the food and pleasures I could afford you
But as years passed I got busy with school and I never played with you anymore
You were grown and an adult
And I thought we would be fine
Just as all the other strays that eventually left my house after they got older
I thought you had left
When covid came I continued to neglect seeing you and just fed you food whenever I went outside
I believed that you would be fine
Just like the rest of the cats
Im sorry I couldn’t do much for you
and today you came back
weak and dying
I should have known when I saw you a few weeks, all thin and weak that you were sick
but I feigned ignorance
I was too selfishly engrossed in my own school work
I thought you’d heal on your own
I’m sorry for ignoring your calls
I’m sorry I didn’t play with you
I’m sorry I ignored your call for help
Words can do no justice to how betrayed you must felt by me
Words can do no justice to save you anymore
I am beaten I am sad I am broken
I am guilty
Today you lied down next to the car, on the cold hard cement
I came to see you for the first time in a while
And you tried to look at me with your weak eyes
You were badly badly sick
I wanted to stay with you
I wanted to give you the warmest hug I can offer but I can’t I’m sorry my love
I’m terribly terribly terribly sorry
I love you I love you
You are enough
I wish in another life
You’d have a better future
A better home
A more loving owner
A caring owner
My heart aches as I think how lonely you must have felt
Having no one beside you as you lied dead
I failed you
