The Cats Crossing

see cats so many
in my area from tiny
to huge and ironically
they cross me every morn
particularly the brown
one which goes from
right to left when
I open the main door..
There is a saying of yore
in my part of the state
that cats crossing the gate
when one goes out
and mewing loud
when one wakes up
are bad omen bringing bad luck
Well, I have been seeing not one
but scores of them criss crossing
my path from the day let me say
when I was born more than
a half century ago in this land.
Nothing untoward has happened
and no fortune has jacked .
me up when they do not appear.