Dear
Lord, please open your gates and call St. Francis
to
come escort this beloved companion across the Rainbow Bridge.
Assign her to a place of honor, for she has been a faithful servant and has always done her best to please me.
Bless the hands that send her to you, for they are doing so in love and compassion, freeing her from pain and suffering.
Grant
me the strength not to dwell on my loss.
Help
me remember the details of her life with the love she has shown me.
And
grant me the courage to honor her by sharing those memories with others.
Let
her remember me as well and let her know that I will always love her.
And
when it's my time to pass over into your paradise,
please
allow her to accompany those who will bring me home.
Thank
you, Lord, for the gift of her companionship
and
for the time we've had together.
And thank you, Lord, for granting me the strength to give her to you now.
Amen.
I'm often there to
protect your rights, my presence often hinders fights.
I never attack with
thought to kill, when subduing one, my job I fill.
I never worry a single
thought, as to how I'll fare at a certain spot.
The love I have
for a handler's care, is all I need, each day to fare.
And if some day
my luck turns bad, I'll relish all the joys I've had.
To be with men who
stand for good, in a special kind of brotherhood.
The story's end
by now you know, of how I tried for a better show.
I did my best, though I did fall, when I was called and gave my all.