To my dearest Sally, love changes everything:
hands and faces, earth and sky.
Sally, love changes everything:
how you live and how you die.
You were there all the time,
a night will seem like a lifetime now.
Yes, love, love changes everything,
how miss your beautiful face,
Without you my world will
never ever be the same.
Sally, when you were here
the days were happy, we were a team.
I miss you being gone,
my missing you, my grief is deep.
Knowing you are somehow near me though,
our bond will last forever.
Yes, Sally, you changed everything, you taught me love and compassion, you gave me strength.
Without you nothing in the world will ever be the same.
Rest in peace my beautiful girl, you’re the best kitty in the whole world. I will miss you forever. I’ll miss you at dinner, I’ll miss coming home to you, I’ll miss our talks, I’ll miss sitting on the couch with you. I’ll miss brushing you, I’ll miss seeing how pleased you were with yourself after getting groomed, I loved how you indulged me with your licks of enjoyment eating your favorites. I will miss you jumping up on the table at work, looking for your snack and water. I will miss seeing you in your bed, watching to see if I’m going to put out your supper. I know your last days were painful, but you never gave up, you tried so hard to eat and be yourself. I’m glad you had your last grooming, I’m so, so glad you were out on the deck those few times to just sit in the sun.
I’m just so sorry to see you go, I thought t would be okay to be alone today, but it’s not. I thought you’d be here today–recovering from your teeth surgery. I got you a whole box of food–you were going to have a clean towel on your bed. I didn’t know you were in so much pain and could barely talk the last day. You died yesterday, I’m in such grief with your leaving. Okay, but now I am glad to have talked over everything before you left, I am glad to have looked at your face one last time, to kiss you, to just give you a kiss and scratch your head. You were the loyal one. So, I know you’re safe and happy, I am so sorry for so much I didn’t do or did crazy stuff around you.
I will always remember your incredibly perfect face–it is quite spectacular. I’ll never forget finding you, how we chased you and probably scared you just to pick you up. I’m so glad we found you. Okay, you have the most, most beautiful profile. You were a perfect cat. I will miss you forever.
I’ll miss having you in the bed with me, during thunder storms, and especially I’ll miss my secretary cat. You kept me going all these 10 years of work. Today, the day after you died, I have never felt so alone. I realize now it was you that made the difference in how I lived and my priorities. I am so, so grateful for what you taught me and
how you kept me on track.
You were the sweetest, most loving, though hissing, girl I could ever be so fortunate enough to have care about me. I want you to find your mother, I think she was waiting for you. Find Eric for me. Find Daisy, she’ll be nice to you, I promise. So until we meet at the bridge, I love you Sally, it’s been quite a time being your mommy. God bless and keep you, Sally. I will miss you every minute until I see you again. There was no cat, and there will never be another cat
as incredible as you.
I’ll be always talking to you. I’m also so glad you were there after Daisy left, and most importantly how we then finally got close and got to know each other. You are a precious jewel, you cared about Daisy so much. I respect you for being that way with her. I know you have found your best place where you are now. Peace.
So, now off back to the world I must go, shaping my remaining years without you.
You were here and sometimes all my wisdom disappears.
Love makes fools of everyone:
all the rules we
make are broken.
Yes, love, love changes everything:
live or perish, in its flame.
Having your love and devotion, Sally, it will never be the same for me again.
Love will never ever let you be the same.
Love will never ever let you be the same.
(Written the morning after Sally’s death, in complete grief and sorry over her being gone.) God bless us all.
With my deepest love and affection and gratitude,
| SALLY |
| 30, May 2007 |
| Marcia Whittleton |