Is this better?


Dolour denied - it starts to seep

through all my guards. I try to keep
my daughter close to me and sweep
all feelings off, resign my ire.
It's just a cat!


Or better
...."release my ire"
..."give up my ire" is surely too plain.
***Astropic of the day***

""For me there is only the traveling on paths that have heart, on any path that may have heart. There I travel, and the only worthwhile challenge is to traverse its full length. And there I travel looking, looking, breathlessly." ~Don Juan