If you could see what it tis, that cats can see <br />It would amaze, perplex and astound you <br /> <br />For they can see, most easily <br />The sights and worlds that swirl around you <br /> <br />Seen by you as a half glimpsed shadow… <br />A furtive movement from the corner of one’s eye <br /> <br />Unseen by you, behind that sly shadow <br />Is where the other worlds lie <br /> <br />Cats legs will stiffen, hair stand on end <br />Wide eyes staring into dark, empty space <br /> <br />At seemingly nothing… but I tell you my friend <br />They see things and know of, a strange eerie place <br /> <br />The things that we sense, yet elude our meager vision <br />The things that rustle about and go bump in the night <br /> <br />This is simply the world that exists hard close to ours <br /> Quite real to cats, and to us unseen, out of sight <br /> <br />The frightened manner in which cats react and stare <br />Could be good reason that we’re not allowed to be… <br /> <br />Endowed with their perception, of what it tis they’re aware <br />Of the worlds swirling about us…worlds, only cats can see<br /><br />David Whalen<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/darkly-as-thru-a-cat-s-eyes/
