by Joan Tiger / Mom

I was here before today. Can’t remember when. It’s ten months today that Taj went away. Sometimes it seems like yesterday;
other times it seems a million years ago.

I keep waiting for the day I finally accept losing him. So far it hasn’t arrived. After all this time, I still can’t think of or talk about Taj without choking up. He is in my first thoughts when I wake up in the morning and in my last thoughts before I fall asleep at night.

I thought I would dream of him often after he was gone, but so far that has only happened twice. One was a beautiful dream, the other was a nightmare, like the many I had during his last year, when I knew his time was coming soon.

The hope of that ‘Rainbow Bridge’ stays with me.
Taj, all I can say is
that you’d better be there waiting for me!

 

All my love always,
Joan Tiger