To my Maxie and Joey,
On this day, September 20,2003, I have lost you both. You have taken that journey home to Jesus. I am writing this to try to put my heart at ease. To try to stop the hurt that my heart and arms have to hold you and to smell your fur.
I am writing this as I have had to do the hardest things in my life that I thought and prayed each night that I would never have to do again, to have to let go.
I am away from my city in Ill. and I am 946 miles away in Long Island. Yesterday I got the “Call” that a mama of a pet never wants to get or hear that My loves of my life have been hurt by the hands of man.
To my Maxie, born on June 1, 1997.
She came into my life in a time that I needed her, to help bridge that gap that me and my mama had. To show conditional love. She came into my life at the age of 4 days old as she was buried alive and this little creature needed a mama and I was there to help her.
You see, I got the call that there was a shooting and she was killed do to a bad fight involving people that lived next door.
My beloved “Joey” who was her companion, was there the day I brought her into my home. Joey was a lab who has only ever asked to be loved and now as I write this he is gone too. He had fought for his life and his heart won as his heart belonged to Maxie, and just as they were together in life, so they are in death, as he was standing next to her when the shots were fired. Maxie didn’t suffer and it took her life without pain, but my Joey held on as long as he could, maybe for my return. I will never know.
They both died without me. To be so far away from them it’s as if apart of me has died.
This morning before my mama and me went to church, I was told that my Joey had passed over that “RainBow Bridge” that now they both are at peace.
I want to thank my Mama, as she has given me the one thing in life that I need right now and that is
“her Love and Time and Understanding”.
To my Maxie and Joey, I leave you with these words of Josh,
“I will see you in all that is around me” and on the last day that I am here and when I must go back to that city were it all started. I will have to let my mama go. I will be at the ocean as there I can be a peace.
I know that you are just a “Heart beat” away.
These are the words from my mama,
“Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray to Jesus my soul to keep. Keep me safe, keep bad dreams away, lead me to a brand “NEW DAY’.
To you my sweet Joey and Maxie, I will see you in my dreams and over the “RainBow Bridge” your mama that will hold you in my heart and dreams of the night.
Jessy
| Joey & Maxie |
| 20, Sep 2003 |
| Jessy Lytle |