My words are passers-by,
Depicting me, slinking
From room to room,
Clinging to walls,
Crawling along the ceiling
When not under a bed;
Not a feline in sight.
Not an invite into my psyche
That cooked up rumours
Of a tigress on the prowl
From friends I had never met
In a boisterous mansion
With alcoves and arches
And pugmarks on the floor.