Felinthropic principle

The laws of the universe must be such that cats exist.

Perhaps, we got it all wrong
in thinking that the laws of the universe bend towards
an obligation for our existence.
Perhaps, it is like standing next to someone,
who is being blown a kiss across a whole street,
and here we are, grinning proudly for the mistaken association
for our proximity to something truly remarkable.
Perhaps, the gentle universe,
with its infinite patience to make
quasars and pastries,
is here to conceive

a cat

— a cozy cat,
curled like a breadloaf,
somewhere warm,
made possible by a mere few billion years of effort.

There you have the weak and the strong
felinthropic principles:
not only that a cat exists,
but that they be cozy.

So, you need electrons with just the right mass and charge
to make possible laser pointers and kibbles.
And a solar system,
which radiates just the right beam of orange light upon a carpet
that an orange tabby can elongate upon,
almost invisible amid a celestial halo.

Perhaps, it is
    humble comfort
        that motivates the universe to twirl
rather than the legacies of muttonheads,
catless and loveless, content instead with mere power over each other,
irrelevant speckles to a universe they find to be uncaring.
Perhaps, to understand the universe,
you need to look deeply
    —if not into that proverbial grain of sand—
into the infinite and indifferent eyes of a cat.

Melih Sener