Kitten In The Dark Poem by lalitha iyer

YESTER NIGHT WHEN ALL LIFE SLEPT
SOME LOVELY LITTLE BEING MEWED ABRUPT
SHE WAS HANGING ON A TREE TRUNK STUCK
A LITTLE KITTY MOTHERLESS WRECKED

MY HEART LEAPT AT THE PLIGHT
OF THE LOVELY BEING JUST ALIVE
WHO COULD STAND A SIGHT SO SAD
THE POOR KITTY ALL HUNGRY AND CRIED

I WAS SAD THAT I COULD NOT HELP HER
IT WAS TOO BAD THAT MY SELFISH DOORS BARRED ME
KEYED MY LOCKS PRISONED ME IN
MY SELFISH HOUSE WAS HARDLY OPEN

THE LITTLE BEING WITH NO MUM TO NURSE
COLD AND HUNGRY IN THE OPEN FIELD
THE LOVELY PINKY LIPS COULD HARDLY UTTER
SHE WAS SHIVERING BADLY IN HUMAN WINTER

THE WORLD WAS SLEEPING HAPPY HAPPY
I TOO WARM WITHIN MY BED
THE POOR KITTY STRUGGLING WILD
SHE YELLED AND CRIED TOO BITTER A CHILD

FOR HER AGE AND FOR HER TEXTURE
THE WORLD WAS SO CRUEL TO HER SISTER
BUT I A WOMAN OF SELFISH SHUTTER
I LOCKED UP WITHIN AND HELPED HER NOT NOR LET HER IN...........