Kip

Was with saddened heart that I said my goodbye
I was so devastated, I was too stunned to cry
It just happened so quickly there was no time to think
I took of your life and it surely did stink

I beg your forgiveness, please know I loved you
But it seemed there was just nothing else I could do
Your death was so senseless, it was not your fault
Why in my home did a dog you assault?

Jonah had cancer and I didn’t realize
That he was a weakling in your canine eyes
You did what was natural based on nature’s call
When one becomes sickly he must take a fall

Together as brothers you lived for two years
But that meant nothing to you it appears
There are some things in nature that just don’t make sense
How living together would just be too tense

I thought he went down to the cool basement floor
To escape of the heat, that it meant nothing more
How could I ever have possibly known
A cancer was spreading within all his bone?

A fight that you started, I just barely stopped
And I thought out of joint that his knee might have popped
So off to the vet I did run Jonah there
I thought they’d just fix him, I thought they’d take care

When he said it was cancer I just couldn’t believe
And right at that moment I started to grieve
He said that I needed to keep you apart
But no one would take you, it just broke my heart

You lived in a house full of dogs for two years
But all that I asked said they just had their fears
So I held you and loved you and told you farewell
And helped make your journey to heaven to dwell

What hurts more than ever, if I’d had a clue
This might not have needed to happen to you
A mere three more weeks is all Jonah survived
He came up to meet you, at Heaven arrived
 

2008 Marcie Tepper