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PedigreeChallenged
Best in Group
Posts:1001
 | | 04/19/2006 6:56 PM |
| | Treat me kindly my beloved friend,
for no heart in all the world
is more grateful than the heart of me.
Do not break my spirit with punishment,
for though I would lick your hand between blows,
your patience and understanding will
more quickly teach me the things
you would have me learn.
Speak to me often, for your voice
is the worlds sweetest music,
as you must know by the fierce wagging
of my tail when your footsteps fall upon
my waiting ears.
Please take me inside when it is cold and wet,
for I am domesticated animal,
no longer accustomed to bitter elements.
I ask no greater glory than the privilege
of sitting by your side, day or night.
Keep my pan filled with fresh water,
for I cannot tell you when I suffer thirst.
Feed me clean food that I may stay well,
to romp and play, and do your bidding,
to walk by your side, and stand ready willing
and able to protect you with my life,
should your life be in danger.
Finally my dearest friend, when I am very old,
and it is evident to you that I am no longer
able to enjoy good health, hearing, and sight,
do not feel that you have to make any heroic efforts
to keep me going. I am not having any fun.
Please see that my trusting life is taken gently.
I shall leave this life knowing, with the last breath I draw,
that my fate was always safest in your loving hands.
--By Beth Norman | | | |
| mackenziegirl
Champion
Posts:51
| | 04/19/2006 7:22 PM |
| | Isn't that beautiful! I've seen that before but it gets me right in the heartstrings!!!! (sniffle).
thanks for posting it!!
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| BritPup7
Champion
Posts:2
| | 04/20/2006 11:15 AM |
| | Having just recently held my darling dog in my arms and told her I loved her as she slipped away to peace, that last paragraph really reduced me to a wreck. Nonetheless, a beautiful work which I shall keep by my side. Thanks for sharing. | | | |
| koasheba
Champion
Posts:1
| | 06/07/2006 1:24 PM |
| That last paragraph got me too , as i held my Koa and told him he was loved had him for 14 years ..
I Stil love you Koa Rest in Peace May 4 2006 | | | |
| Susan634
Champion
Posts:100
| | 06/07/2006 7:26 PM |
| | Ohhhh how beautiful !!!! Ive never seen this before, think i might have to save it. Thanks for sharing.
Susan, Chloe, Rudy, Gizmo & Mariah | | | |
| Cheerful
Champion
Posts:158
| | 06/08/2006 2:10 AM |
| | Hi,
I love this poem and periodically read this. It's beautiful and thanks for posting it.
Another wonderful one is Please Let Me Go..when an aged pet is speaking to his upright regarding it's time ..I had to read that many times before I was able to let Shaggy go to the Rainbow Bridge as well as this one.
Cheerful | | | |
| cosnowflake
Best of Breed
Posts:250
| | 11/17/2007 7:55 AM |
| | great poem!
another good one is the one newfs shared about am i going home today?
i don't think i fully understood the love one has for a pet until i finally adopted one !! my first dog ever!!
thanks for sharing these heartfelt poems! | | | |
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