REST IN PEACE MY SWEET MAN, YOU GAVE US SO MUCH LOVE
1995-9/15/09

Grieve not, nor speak of me with tears, but laugh and talk of me as if I were beside you. I loved you so -- 'twas Heaven here with you.



I will not look back for there is sorrow
I will not look for today for there is longing
I will look forward for there is OUR tomorrow

My lap is too too empty and cold,
the soft resting head no longer there to warm it.
No comfort to be found, no furry body to stroke,
my quiet companion gone....

My heart is broken, there are no other words
to write it - this empty ache, this space
you filled, loving always, never judging...
My friend has left, and my hands, arms, all
helpless to stop it.

Little one, fly free, where the fields are green
and filled with friends gone before. I will
carry you always, your pawprints ever beating,
running joyously to greet me whenever I call
and memory stirs in my heart...

God asked the feline spirit
Are you ready to come home?
Oh, yes, quite so, replied the precious soul
And, as a kitty, you know I am most able
To decide anything for myself.

Are you coming then? asked God.
Soon, replied the whiskered angel
But I must come slowly
For my human friends are troubled
For you see, they need me, quite certainly.

But don't they understand? asked God
That you'll never leave them?
That your souls are intertwined. For all eternity?
That nothing is created or destroyed?
It just is....forever and ever and ever.

Eventually they will understand,
Replied the glorious little kitty
For I will whisper into their hearts
That I am always with them
I just am....forever and ever and ever.