w/o cats

lo, without cats
there is naught

but ostentatious hordes
of vermin

restive nights
bereft of reason

spiraling
down the dwindled path

wistful wants
of fitful fervor

servitude
to slakeless sovereigns

flailing
in the self-bound prison

patrons
of a cruel indoctrine

frigid
sans thy furred companion

left
to tend the toil of humans

gone are purrs
that soothed thy sorrow

destined
for the noose of morrow

mother nature marred
with chaos

failed
by deus ex machina

lexicon
no longer valid

relics
riddled with patina

felled
by man’s incessant malice

lost
without the feline bounty 

humankind
a hopeless wasteland

exiled
from its god ailuric