Cat's Eyes
As the stars sleep,
tiny tears weep
and wash our eyes.
As the wind beds down
its head my breath
is caught in arms.
A pale sickly moon haunts,
the eyes of a thousand cats stare
while I perform in dreams.

Birdsong echoed off the wind
and someone whistled
a toneless tune
that mocked the harmony
nature gave us.
I sat, irritated, on that bus,
I wanted to shout
at the tone deaf man
who sailed nightmare ghosts,
but I got off instead.
by
Ian Sawicki