I want to run again with you

I want to run again with you 

My Panther

Quiet and Hidden we ran fast

Through the fruity colored rainforest

Smiling darkly, in the night we would ride

you would carry me swift

then take rest while I stroke your Jetted fur 

and sing you to sleep

Until I told you to go.

I had a baby so small

you play rough and he might get hurt

Come back when it’s safer, I said

now I didn’t see you in a long time

and he is older

and I haven’t played, or saved, for even longer

We ran once so gallant and fearless

Come again to me in the night

I want to show him how to jump and climb

and whisper and roar

and play all the tricks we used to play, to live and be 

and thrive

black and quiet

wet dark eyes tearing in silent laughter

I want to run again my friend

I want to feel the evening winds