Findus

Striped green pants and bean green eyes

Quick of wit and small of size

Fuzzy cat ears, stripes, and a scratch on his forehead

from when I tried to give him a haircut instead

We were best friends forever

We did everything together

Swinging, running, jumping, playing

Drawing on the sidewalk, hanging from the railing

Swimming, hiking, unwrapping gifts at Christmas

Pretending we were princesses with our silk scarves trailing behind us

As I grew up I wondered what

Made me talk and he not

Why was it that, while I could do things alone

He could do nothing but stay at home

An unmoving statue in a museum

A dumb block in a Roman colloseum

I wish it wasn't so, I'd lament

But what could I say, we were different

Until one day I noticed something odd

A flicker of motion around his paw

Could this be real? My limbs grew numb

My heart beat a giant bass drum

He wanted to explain his crime

Why he'd been silent all this time

But it was not so, and since that day

I couldn't believe him the same way

That German toy cat named Findus

Is now just a stuffed toy on the shelf

And all that believing is behind us.