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Curled up underneath the table

signaling with the tip of a tail

call your name and you climb my knee

I can read your mood today

Just the color of your eyes tells me

even the nights I didn't sleep

One by one, every sigh

gathered up and unraveled

into a secret notebook

I add another line today

all the quiet things I've saved

the selfish and the tender both

In front of a dish left half-eaten

staring hard and waiting there

if I walk by pretending not to see

suddenly you lean on me

Even halfway through your grooming

call, and you turn to look at me

One by one, every warmth

lined up and put away

even that mischief on your face

I keep it all on file

such small hands, and still

such an enormous heart

On rainy days you sleep so deeply

curled up close beside the window

even a loneliness without a name

unravels at your whiskers' tip

You don't have to say

that it'll be alright

just having you beside me

tells me everything