I Haven’t Forgotten
I laid by you on the sofa last night, trying to comfort you.
I could see that you were crying. You found it hard to sleep.
I whined to you softly as you brushed away a tear, “It’s me,
I haven’t really left you, I’m still here.”
I was close to you as I watched you pour the coffee. You were thinking of the many times your hands reached down to me. Oh what fun we’ve had. I am so sorry I couldn’t hang on, but I have gone to join my friends, Muffin, Cookie,
Miss Kitty, and Cricket.
But, I want to re-assure you and Mom, that I’m in Heaven now and will be with you always. I was with you when you took the guys to the Post Office again and
as you fumbled for your Post Office key.
I gently put my paw on you, I smiled and said
“Don’t be sad, it’s me.”
You looked so very tired and sad as you sank back in the car seat as if looking for me. I tried so hard to let you know, that I was standing there. Don’t worry, it’s now possible for me to be so near you everyday. To say to you with certainty,
“I never went away.”
By evening time you and Mom sat there very quietly, glancing over where I used to be, but I think you knew… in the stillness of the evening, it was not to be.
The day is over… I smile and watch you yawning and putting the rest of the guys in bed and quietly telling them “Good-night, God bless, I’ll see you in the morning my good friends, my adorable pets.”
And when the time is right for you and Mom to cross the brief divide, I’ll rush across to greet you and all of us will stand, side by side. I have so many things to show you,
there is so much for you to see.
Be patient, live your journey out…
then you and Mom come home to be with me.