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Tiger

Story ID:3355
Written by:Bobby O'neill Mitchum (bio, contact, other stories)
Story type:Poem
Location:Phenix City Alabama U.S.A.
Year:2007
Person:SELF
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A tiger sleeps upon my sofa
and stalks round my easy chair
and plays a game of hide and seek
up and down my stairs.

He hides in a dark corner
to leap at me as i pass by
or sits and gazes out the window
at the birds as they fly by.

He yawns and purrs upon my lap
or plays with a ball of twine
but he is not a jungle cat
he is just this cat of mine.

He only weighs a pound or two
but his a heart is wild and free
and though i may never pet a tiger
he is close enough for me.