Purrsday Poetry: Hard Rain In Ukraine by Raffi Lido

The following poem was dedicated to the people of Ukraine and especially the man that rescued one of his cats as seen in this story here by Raffi Lido:

Stands here

A man

With his wide-eyed

Grey concrete dusted

Cat in his hands

In the debris

Of the take no prisoners

War

There is nothing more

That was there before

As he fumbles for

the nothingness

In the unrecognizability

Of his once village’s

Anonymity

 

This weary woman

With the ragged smile

Wears a kitten

In her sweater

Whose golden head

protruding

Is all you see

 

As she struggles to

Understand

Where she is and

Where she will be

 

The people of Ukraine

Embed their animals

In their clothing and

In their life

Every step they take is

Rife

with terror

And fear and strife

and yet

They say- I’m alive

 

And most importantly

I have my dog or

Cat everywhere

I go

 

Where that is

I may not know

Nor do I know

What we will

weather

But wherever

Wherever I do

Go now

 

You can be sure

Every unknown

step

We will always

Raffi