Tuesday Cats . . .in Heaven!

. . . midnight 

not a sound from the pavement

has the moon lost her memory?

she is smiling alone. . .

. . . meow-mories

all alone in the moonlight

i can smile at the old days

life was beautiful then . . .

let the memory live again . . .

. . . burnt out ends of smoky days

the stale cold smell of morning . . .

. . . the street lamp dies

another night is over

another day is dawning . . .

touch me! its so easy to leave me!

all alone with the memory

of my days in the sun . . .

if you touch me you'll understand what happiness is!

look, a new day has begun . . .

- from Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Cats

(with some meow-alterations :-)

I was happy that the musical Cats was presented in Manila in August. It paved the way for me to make kids know and understand the plight of Pusakals. A cat is pusa in filipino and 'kal' stands for kalye or street. Thus, a "pusakal" is a street cat and an askal is a stray dog (aso). In the musical, a stray cat romanticized her plight which was a perfect vehicle for me to make people understand and sympathized about the plights of the 'homeless' in our midst, whether a pusa, aso, or even tao (people) . . . and make authorities consider a program for their rescue as protected by laws. My meow-ful entry for Gattina's Cats on Tuesday.