Love Them For Me Too

People have said time will heal pain
I wish it were true, it would be to my gain.
There’s pain in my heart that just won’t subside
For the lack of a pet sitting here at my side.
My life is not mine to choose as I please
For no pets are allowed to hold on my knees.
The complaints from pet owners I used to have to,
Hair everywhere, fleas and my new shoes are chewed.
You live with their faults because you love them too much
To rid yourself of them because they do such.
My heart cries in pain each time that I see
The love that you share and there is none for me.
You lucky people just don’t realize
Just what you have sitting there at your side.
Unless you’ve been here you can’t understand
Life can be viscous when dealt a bad hand.
The pain that I carry will never go away
For wherever I go there’s reminders each day.
I pet other folk’s dogs and hold their cats to
But it’s just not the same, they belong to you.
We don’t often appreciate what we have till it’s gone,
The space that’s left empty leaves us torn and alone.
All I ask is you love them as much as they love you….
And while you’re at it, would you love them for me to.
Kathy Henderson
2 – 1999

The Key

I put a gold padlock on my heart today,
In the darkness took the key and threw it away.
Mended the tears in my heart with threads of gold
Sent from Heaven above from a dog so old.
I won’t take the chance for the tears may leak
The love he gave that is mine to keep.
His memory is tucked inside my heart to
So I can still see him whenever I choose.
He was just on loan and this I knew to
When to my home he came brand new.
As the years flew by and each one more precious
How I prayed that time would never catch us.
The pain will subside in time I’ve been told
But I have a deaf ear when pains in my hold.
So I bought a gold padlock for my heart today
For fear one precious moment would slip away.
Gold threads from Heaven to mend each tear,
Threads freely given from my old friend up there.
His days were fulfilled on earth here with me
But I know in my heart he’s waiting to see
A glint in the dark of a gold padlock so bright
For he holds the key I threw into the night.
Kathy Henderson
3 - 1999

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