The picture is a part of the message. I am the cat. Everything in it has symbolic meaning.

I spent more time on the picture than the poem.

They are conjoined like twins.

There are multiple stories and layers of meaning.

Some, only you could see and understand.

The door is a metaphor.

I'm sorry you don't like it.

The candle is a reference to Edna St. Vincent Millay.

I am raging against the dying of the light