We will NEVER forget you

What happens when you lose one you love so dearly? All you live for and everything you do is with them in mind. How do you recover when you lose that someone?

I wish I knew the answer.

Perhaps there is comfort knowing you had a great life full of love and excitment. While your life was only 1 1/2 years long, I hope you feel it was full because you filled our life with more than we had ever anticipated. We all miss you tremendously even though it has only been one week. It wasn't supposed to end this way, so fast, so young.

It was only two weeks ago you were playing with your sister in Springfield Massachusetts in the backyard, chasing the German Shephard from next door with only a fence separating you two.

Yes you were very sick, and we tried everything we could to make you better, but when the seizures broke through all the medication with tremendous force and in bunches, we were left with no choice. We knew you weren't yourself since you were on medication but it seemed to help for a little while. Your confusion with what was happening with you hurt us to witness every day. While you did show flashes of 'your old self', they began to become fewer and farther apart.

Your sister has been looking for you since you left us. She was there to say good bye to you but I'm not sure she understands yet. There is a small part of her in you, I never thought I would say that since you two are so different in personality. But we can see that now.

We know how you didn't like being alone or left behind, so we brought you home to be with us. You are in our thoughts every day and while we are still in shock that you are not at the door to greet us every night or to give us kisses, we hold those memories tightly so that one day we will be re-united once again.

Your spirit is something I have never seen before and I don't think I will ever see again!

We love you buddy.





At Rainbow Bridge

By the edge of a wood, at the foot of a hill, is a lush, green meadow where time stands still. Where the friends of man and woman do run, when their time on earth is over and done.

For there, between this world and the next, is a place where each beloved creature finds rest. On this golden land, they wait and they play, till the Rainbow Bridge they cross over one day.

No more do they suffer, in pain or in sadness, for there they are whole, their lives filled with gladness. Their limbs are restored, their health renewed, their bodies have healed, with strength imbued.

They romp through the grass, without even a care, until one day they start, and sniff at the air. All ears prick forward, eyes dart front and back, then all of a sudden, one breaks from the pack.

For just at that instant, their eyes have met; Together again, both person and pet. So they run to eachother, these friends from long past, the time of their parting is over at last.

The sadness they felt while they were apart, has turned into joy once more in each heart. They embrace with a love that will last forever, and then, side by side, they cross over...together.

Inspired by a Norse Legend