Thirty years
sitting with cats.
Student
beside master.
The lesson:
unfiltered presence.
Trust given
or withheld.
No performance.
No negotiation.
Gentle in stillness.
Fierce when needed.
Playful without agenda.
One-to-one,
rawness
I keep failing to learn.
We complicate it…
love through lens,
affection concocted,
feeling filtered
through what we want seen.
The cat gives cleanly.
Withholds cleanly.
No construction.
No calculation.
Just presence
or absence.
Thirty years.
Still learning
what they know
without thinking:
how to be
unassuming,
how to trust
without architecture,
how to love
without performance.
The master purrs.
I practice.
- UpsilonA
