Cat Heaven

by Cynthia Rylant

The way to Cat Heaven is a field of sweet grass,

where crickets and butterflies play. A cat may be late getting to

Heaven...there is so much fun on the way!

But an angel will wait at the yellow front door, and

wait till a kitty comes home. And when she arrives, he'll give her a

kiss and some milk in a bowl of her own.

There are trees in Cat Heaven, trees made just for cats,

trees growing so green and so high. But, no one gets stuck in a tree

anymore--if a kitty wants down, she will fly!

And, oh all the toys, kitty toys everywhere, thousands and

thousands go by. There are buttons and baubles and small catnip

leaves all afloat in the sky.

There are angels, of course, with soft angel laps, where kitties can

purr loud and strong. The angels will rub kitties' noses and ears, and

sing them a Cat Heaven song.

And when cats are hungry, there is God's kitchen counter--all

covered with white kitty dishes, full of tuna and salmon and

mounds of sardines and wonderful little pink fishes.

The cats in Cat Heaven are so loved and spoiled, God lets them all

lie on his bed...He walks in his garden with his wonderful Book and

a kitty asleep on his head.

Then when a cat needs to, she may simply ponder and watch the

blue world deep and wide....she will watch the old house where she

once lived and wandered, and the people who loved her inside.

All cats love Heaven, they know the way there, they know where

the angel cats fly. They will turn past the stars and the moon and

the sun.....to curl up with God in the sky.