Pylimitics

This is a note
to my four-legged pals:
When you talk with your humans,
beware!

Their idea of “right now”
is pathetically thin
and they only know things
that are there.

I think it’s because
although senses they have
it’s their eyes
they rely on the most.

“Out of sight out of mind”
is a thing that they say,
and that mind, if it’s there,
is a ghost.

They don’t know the things
that last long or that carry
like smells or the sounds
they can’t hear.

So they’re only aware
of the stuff next to them;
To them nothing’s real
if not near.

So when trying to tell them
the stuff they don’t know
just remember the things
they can’t think.

They are limited, yes,
that is why they need us
’cause their world disappears
when they blink.

-Chocolate