Yusuf the cat

Yusuf the cat dashed into my brain

This odd nighttime meow meow of a cat

shaves the edges of my brain

to show to me an aberration of the norm

of things having a beginning and an end

Round and round it goes in circles

without beginning nor end

without meaning nor purpose

existing, still

Brown eyes churn out an emotional mill

This delightful daytime mia mia of a girl

Sends my hair into quiet giggles

A little window opens

In flows a girl

Out flows a cat

Yusuf the cat

Sends me into shots of enlightenment

The high lows

and the low tides

Makes me say things I couldn't have dreamt of thinking

Takes me into worlds that disappear under the eyelids

Wakes me up to life

Wakes me up to life

I dreamt up thinking

Of a mia mia girl

With giggles for hair

Blue eyes stare out the ocean

Baby blue eyes

Brown ones cry

Bold brown ones

Cry looking for love

looking in

and finding out

Leave the window open

Watch it grow

As what flows out

Brings in more.