Weird Cat lady

I walked down the street today and saw a lady with some cats a friend told me "she's the cat lady"

I looked at her and saw an story in her eyes
She wasn't always like that
She didn't always have so many cats

she use to have dreams and goals
she use to have everything she wanted at her hands

but then one day something tragic happened that snatched it all away
something that still haunts her to this day

So little by little did she being to take in so many cats
little by little she became known as "weird old cat lady"

i saw my older self in her eyes

if i didn't get my act together
if i don't stop letting the bad and the dark take over my life
then i would soon become the new "weird old cat lady"

Slowly i began to realize she use to be like me
but when something bad happened
she let it take over
she had those cats because they couldn't hurt the way people could hurt us....

I looked at her and smiled
I understood her

as she looked at me
looked me in the eyes
she saw her past

and with her eyes she pleaded with me not to let this dark time take me over

she asked as though it was the only thing that could save me...to let my past go to look forward.

i smiled and nodded and let her know that i understood...