Today I ask for your forgiveness…
As a child, I snuggled in your fur…I wrapped my arms around your neck.
I played, in awe but fearless.
Pulled dagger teeth, poked glassy eyes, grasped languid razor claws.
Hard plaster tongue & snout; lifeless, chipped, dusty.
Pelt limp, spreadeagled trimmed with felt, balding, bullet scarred & faded.
Bones broken, missing; Death.
I did not think of you alive old Tiger Skin Rug.
abelmoir 
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Awe so cute.