27th May 2024

Exactly three weeks ago, 

Two hours before dawn,

On a Tuesday like today,

You gasped your last breath
And left this world for the hereafter.

This is not a memorial,

No photos, 
No virtual tombstone bearing the usual cryptic markings,

Na da,
Nothing.

The gods who took you away,
Sometimes they do it for the creation of a new song,
Other times for the creation of a new poem,
Or a new post for the dead cat memorial blog,
Will get no such pleasure.

Not this time.

Let them kill all the cats in this household.
I'm done with memorial blogs marking the deaths of cats in this household.

Never again.

You were like a daughter to me.
They knew that,
Yet they resented it.
Why?

Because God is a jealous God.
Didn't you know?
Weren't you told?
You cannot love anyone or anything more than God.
You can, but there will be consequences.

Oh, yes, I can and I will,

Consequences or no consequences.
Let them do their worse.
After all,
That is who they are,
That is what they do.

11th February 2024

The gunfire has receded

From intense to sporadic,
A sign of rebel withdrawal

From the city streets and alleyways

Back to their lairs and hideouts

In the jungles and the forests

Of tropical Malaysia
Until the next round of festivities 

When the next Emperor God 

Takes his rightful place 

In the sky

And everyone rejoices
With shell bursts way up high

From howitzers and mortars

And an RPG or two
And sometimes multiple blasts
From an MLRS too.