And God asked the feline spirit
Are you ready to come home?
Oh, yes, quite so, replied the precious soul.
And, as a cat, you know I am most able
To decide anything for myself.

Are you coming then? Asked God
Soon, replied the whiskered angel.
But I must come slowly
For my human friends are troubled.
For you see, they need me, quite certainly.

But don't they understand? Asked God
That you'll never leave them?
That your souls are intertwined for all eternity?
That nothing is created or destroyed?
It just is...forever and ever and ever

Eventually they will understand,
Replied the glorious cat.
For I will whisper into their hearts
That I am always with them.
I just am....forever and ever and ever.

Patricia Olson,June 27, 1996
Executive Director of Guiding
Dogs for the Blind and
Executive Director of the
Morris Animal Foundation