April 3 – written as part of the National Poetry Month Challenge.
Have you ever wondered
why cats have nine lives?
Why did the divine
favour the feline?
I ask it
of my neighbour’s blind Persian.
She batted her white
lashes at me, and then
with unerring instinct
leapt on to my knees
asking, “have you tried
trusting even as you fall?”
– Binu Sivan
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