A Matter Of Perspective Poem by Donal Mahoney

Feeding feral cats at dawn
is easier when the cats are calm.
This can happen when the
mix of cats remains the same
but a new cat can create
commotion for a sleepy man.

But feeding cats is easier
for a man with grown children
who have moved around the nation
and communicate by Skype
and bicker as they did when
the four of them were
a year apart in school.

Today the problem isn’t
who’s the better athlete or
gets the highest grades
or will become a millionaire.
Today the problem is the one
terminal with cancer.