Ace of Spades

by Bryce Ellner   Aug 21, 2004


(For anybody who heard my little story about the phantom cat I see every once in a while at my house, this is my poem about him)

I see him every fortnight
Perched 'pon my window sill.
His tail and eyes are all that move,
While the rest of him sits stone still.

His tail flickers side to side
Like a pendulum of a grandfather clock
Or a snake sway, ready to strike,
But he sits there like a rock.

One eye of grey and one of blue,
Stare, piercing through the glass
And every a while his left eye doth change.
To an eerie color of brass

I lay in my bed, stare right back
Into his hellish eyes.
For there is nothing about him,
That I truly can despise.

He and I, we share a bond
Even though we've never met.
Hes my only company and protector,
And from him I need not fret.

My little phantom kitten,
Black and bleak as the night sky.
My little lost soul, trapped here forever,
From the moment he refused to die.

This kinship between us
I honor it forever.
Two lost souls in the pool of life
Float past any endeavor.

Not cast as my curse,
Not sent as my killer,
My friend and forever companion,
Even as the nights grow stiller...and stiller...

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  • 20 years ago

    by Bryce Ellner

    Heh, well for those of you who want to know about Spade heres the story. It started out with my seeing a cat in the yard sometimes at night, but whenever I called my mom or somebody, it was either gone or they couldnt see it. And now every so often when I go to bed and as I'm starting to go to sleep, I always think I see a ghost cat sitting in my room at the bottom of my bed. It may very well be a image I created in my own subconscious mind, but I myself believe in ghosts and most deffinatly in this ghost cat. I'm not sure why hes here nor am I sure on what exactly he wants, but he makes for good company.

    --Bryce~

  • 20 years ago

    by Danielle

    Wow... lol, I'm not exactly sure what this cat is, but i'd love to hear the story sometime! :)

  • 20 years ago

    by vanessarrr

    yay, i remembered spade once i saw the title!!! yeah, that was a really good poem.

    *do...not...be...envious* okay, okay- i admit it. you're a really really really really really really really good poet. oh well, you're already 17:P take care:)

  • 20 years ago

    by Joy

    Excellent poem! I really think the title is unique. Your form really drew me in. Great descriptions too. I could really see the cat in my minds eye. Excellent!

    =)
    .:jOy:.

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