My little kitten that I helped by bottle supplementing inspired a poem. It is also published on my Patreon account here. Read her story here.
Twenty feet away, beyond the door,
Five kittens start their brand-new lives.
I listen, and try hard to let them do their job,
Not make it mine.
Give them a week and they’ll be cute; tonight
Their tiny, mighty bodies
Strive
With all the fire of urgency they brought into this life.
There is no fluff, no cuteness, only this:
Get there. Find mom, find milk, or die; there’s nothing else.
Who knew the tiny ones, still
Birth-wet from their mother’s womb, came armed with
All the power of Earth, of Life itself.
And, sometimes, only sometimes, it’s enough.
—copyright © 2022 by Anna Lisa Goebel