When a girl dies with her need for affection Unmet, she comes back as a cat A wise man once told me that reincarnation Is common in cases like that Like Sei Shonagon I was once a good lady And you were my lover back when Your Samurai relatives ruled Kamakura I wish youd had time for me then You were too busy hunting or watching the wrestling Learning to fence and to ride You left me with servants who made me look beautiful Just in case you changed your mind So dont be surprised, love, if one rainy evening A meowing awakens you late And a cat thats a ghost that can visit the past Comes pushing its nose through your gate Dont be afraid of a cat from the future Somebody built a machine Allowing the cat to go centuries back Through an electronic catflap in time Dont be afraid if I seem supernatural One of us died long ago I dont mean to scare you, I neednt stay I just wanted to tell you hello In the future the mice are wiped out by a virus Pollution obscures the full moon Human beings live in cages theyve built in the sky The tea rooms and temples are gone Cats are just guinea pigs, people are astronauts Love is as cold as the snow People shoot moon rockets into the past Its the last unspoiled place left to go Youre world has perished, but sometimes I miss you And come slinking back to the past In search of affection the future cant give me Because its too cold and too fast
cat, future, affection, past, shonagon