Christmas Poetry

Cat In The Manger

U.A. Fanthorpe

In the story, I'm not there. Ox and ass, arranged at prayer But me? Nowhere.Anti-cat evangelists How on earth could you have missed Such an obvious and able Occupant of any stable? Who excluded mouse and rat? The harmless necessary cat. Who snuggled in with the holy pair? Me. And my purr. Matthew, Mark and Luke and John, (Who got it wrong, Who left out the cat) Remember that, Wherever He went in this great affair  I was there.