Truths or Lies ??

 April Fool's Day ~ Melissa is host in the dVerse Poets Pub ~ asks us to write a poem using a 60 / 40 truth to lie ratio  [mine may be skewed more toward truth] 

Yoda the kitty ~ orange fluff-ball so fine

rescued one day by a Human quite kind

Yoda she named him ~  with a flick of his tail 

vowed "no ma'am, no inside ~ i was born to set sail

rooftops and pastures, the world far and wide

shall be my domain ~ I was made for outside”

yet danger did lurk in the form of a foe

a spiteful mean neighbor (we've all known that woe)

this villainous scoundrel with hatred and spite

trapped poor sweet Yoda ~ locked him up tight

kind lady rescued ~ quickly set free

but Yoda and freedom were not meant to be

the villain struck back ~ one more cat-napping scheme

dumping him miles away ~ survival a dream

the Badlands we call it ~ a wasteland and bleak

Yoda ~ scant sustenance, would grow thin and weak

three months through snowstorms, frostbite and chill

he prowled with resilience, luck and sheer will

till one day in May on a porch far away

a farm couple found him ~ Oh Happy Day

under his collar the farm couple spied 

so faint ~ a phone number, the snow tried to hide

ring ring her phone ~ could it be true

kind Human answered ~ and finally knew

worst winter ever ~ he'd somehow survived

her precious feline ~ alive now pint-sized

together at last ~ in her arms safe and tight

no villain, no weather would steal him this night

cheers to brave Yoda ~ the cat who defied

schemes of the wicked ~ storms far and wide

here's to his Human ~ the best of her kind

love once it's found ~ forever entwined