Life and life, side by side

For Brigit

Life and life, side by side, my feral friend, well

Brigit, a human call, in the end, and now

When I look out every morning to see the world

I’ll know “I was just doing my job” even your

Kittens so happy in their own backyard

My backyard, I said, I have no other option

Than to risk getting you all killed, my feral friends,

Sent growling in a carrier, away, and now,

Tied to the social wheel, I look on that empty place

Where I betrayed all Life for a high Ideal, incompatible

With the natural world, who sustains us all