LOL - I needed this poem yesterday.
Lovely poem, and great reading - you have a great voice for reading your work. I suspect if you do more of that it will increase your upvotes greatly. nicely done, all the way around.
And yes, my own black cat, Bear, consoled me regularly during the long hours when I couldn't post. ;-)
Thanks, Crescendo. I have a whole lot of spoken word on youtube. I will post some of it here as I go along. I am trying to build a decent looking poetry feed. I am going to follow you. Is that okay?