Expressions

The mother cat lifted the kitten loosely

By the scruff to an undefined distance

The world then became upside down

The kitten raised no objections

The cat's maternal face glowed

Like radium in the pool of darkness

The kitten dissolved in mother-softness

The kitten felt  suddenly powerless

Resentful of the cat's allaround presence

Why these frequent unsettling changes

The mind-blowing illogic of movement,

Unprovoked,into strange territories 

Why this sense-benumbing abruptness

And an arrogant mother-knows-all attitude

The thinking kitten wanted to know

The logical basis of the mother's decisions

The cat did not even acknowledge in reply.

It picked up the baby by its looseness

And ran to an unspecified destination

The kitten closed its eyes and acquiesced

Into the  cat's unthinking mother-softness .