I sit and stare at an empty page,

Feels like forever in an intangible phase,

Words get lost in my head for days,

Blank spaces before me look like an impossible maze,

Full of twists and turns that lead to mirrors that betray,

I can’t find a way to get through this block that’s replaced.

This space of creative thought that’s now a black hole,

Takes my ideas chew them up and swallows them whole,

White pages turned black from this soul turned to coal,

The emptiness surrounds me a void without a soul,

I try to write something, anything but my thoughts I can’t control,

The more I try, the more I’m unsuccessful, the more I don’t know.

I almost give up as my anxiety kicks in,

Then she walks in an Angel I call my friend,

She fills me with love as the light starts to bend,

I can see her grace in everything, and in every word I’ve ever penned,

With every meow, every purr, every brush against my skin,

I know I found a miracle that can only be Heaven sent,

Sometimes she’s energetic, sometimes she stares at the wall,

She’s just as happy doing everything as she is doing nothing at all,

She’s got patience like the sun and as beautiful as the night fall,

An enigma that stretches far and wide, then curls up next to me in a ball,

Her eyes shine through the dark like floating stars,

Her purr whispers secrets like a symphony of a thousand hearts.

With every movement she teaches me a lesson,

That lifts my spirit high without asking a question,

I hear her on the stairs like tiny paws of distant thunder clapping,

When she comes into my room she’s a rainbow wrapped in compassion,

As she reignites my passion like fire from the breath of a dragon,

Her patience is as herbaceous as a field of infinite jasmine.

Her infinite grace flows through me in words that are not mine,

They fill these empty pages as tingles go down my spine,

In the blankness of these pages emerge the essence of her shine,

Before I know it our souls align within the rhythm of this rhyme,

From the love of my faithful companion a feline that is truly divine!!

—ŤerryŞalmon—