Tiger's Last Call

I am already leaving.

With these words I will have left

a little more.

Only your heart can halt the hourglass

and invite me to stay.

With these paws I have loved the earth;

imprinting it with my hunger, my strength, my beauty.

To this earth, I have added my children,

my life, my blood, my death.

My whiskers have dowsed the wisdom of my ancestors.

My roar contains their fire.

Once I am gone, so are my ancestors, and my future.

If you cut off your past, then you too forfeit your future

so that your soul bleeds empty in the present.

I bear no blame nor shame.

I stand strong in my memories

And walk beside you in your dreams.

I am almost gone now.

The hourglass overflows.

Only your heart can invite me to stay.

(won first prize in an RSPCA animal poetry competition in West Sussex  - 1990s )

You might like to read these books written by Stephanie:

The Therapist Cat (2012)*,  Depression as a Spiritual Journey (2009), Nature as Mirror (2011) Psychosynthesis Made Easy (2011) Astral Projection Made Easy (2012)

* Click on the link to read a review of this excellent book by Stephanie. 
 

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