Choosing Tears

[lbradorabl]

Tears – streaming down my face
Like a torrential rain

Heart pounding
As if in any moment it will rupture

Sadness swallows me
Like a deep fog by the bay

No amount of speed or distance
Can separate me from the pain

Losses like this
Felt deep – into my very core

My best friend
You relied on me your whole life

While my whole life
Was defined by you

Your happiness brought me joy
Your sadness was mine too

Some, sometimes many
Considered me crazy

Saying you were
Just a dog

To me you were everything

Everything that mattered
Everything good
Everything real

I found all that in you
And I found love

And then today
I gave that back to you

I always thought your coat was full and thick
Because of heritage and diet

Tonight I learned
It was because it hid your angel wings

Fly now among the stars at night
Visit me often in my dreams

I love you
Forever, for always and for one extra day

[talleyJudy]

How poignant and yet comforting on this sad evening of Shadow's passing.

Such lovely thoughts for and of those who without reservation give their hearts to dogs.

Thank you for consolation of tears shed in the past, in the present, and tears that I know I will shed in the future.

A beautiful poem. Again, Thank You.

[amazongold]

Thank you. I can't sleep for tears and missing my sweet baby girl. Judy directed me to this in an email, and it's so very fitting.

Thank you.