Loneliness
So caught up in life are humans today
We miss seeing the blessings that God sends our way.
The hustle and bustle of everyday life,
The struggle for money to keep us alive.
No time for the friend left home alone,
Who waits patiently for attention not shown.
A bowl of food, fresh water, a quick pat on the head,
We have to rise early so we must get to bed.
He follows our steps with soft pleading eyes,
To busy are we to see his heart cry.
The loneliness he carries’s tears at his soul
Through tears in his eyes he see’s a rainbow.
Quietly his soul slips away in the night,
Sound asleep we don’t hear the angels in flight.
As early dawn breaks and we rise to see
The light of life gone from a soul that’s set free.
Through tears we question, we don’t understand
What happened to him, his life was so grand.
He wanted for nothing, how can this be?
Through tear-filled eyes we still fail to see,
The loneliness he carried he tried so hard to show
Through pleading eyes his heart broken so.
Loneliness and grief took his will to live,
His love unreturned he tried so hard to give.
A reason for living we all have to see
And quality of life secures our destiny.
To be loved yet alone can go hand in hand
Then reasons for living we can’t understand.
Animals and people share the same fears
For the soul would have no rainbow –
If the eyes have no tears.
This lonely soul left in sorrow and shame
For he failed busy owners their love to claim.
Kathy Henderson
4 - 1999
Love Them For Me Too
I’ve heard people say that time will heal pain,
I wish it were true, it would be to my gain.
There’s a pain in my heart that just won’t subside,
It’s the lack of a pet sitting here at my side.
My life is not mine to choose as I please,
Neither dog nor a cat to fill my needs.
The complaints from pet owners I used to have to,
Hair everywhere and who chewed my new shoes?
You live with their faults because you love them too much
To rid yourself of them just because they do such.
My heart cries in pain each time that I see
Love that is shared 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 emptiness I carry will never go away
For whereever 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, love them for me to….
Kathy Henderson
2 - 1999
Loving Hands
When I was born I could not see
The human hands that guided me
Into this world so cold and frail.
For days those hands were all I felt,
My eyes still sealed since I was whelped.
Gentle as my mothers touch
Those hands that loved me, oh, so much!
As I grew those hands were there
Tending to my every care.
Not one time did they ever strike me,
No matter what I did with glee.
More times than not they held me close
And stroked my head and fur.
I’ll tell you true if a cat I’d been
Quite loudly I would purr.
An adult I am now and still so blessed.
Those loving hands still hold me tight,
I love them so with all my might!
I keep them close inside my heart,
They’ve been with me since my life’s start.
No fears have I about my fate,
For my loving hands keep my life great!
Now loving hands must comfort me,
For again those hands I cannot see.
They stroke my head; they stroke my fur,
But my whines of pain don’t sound like purrs.
Hands that helped me into this world,
Must now let go of their precious girl.
Now its time, my fate I see,
Those loving hands take hold of me,
Hold me close and shaking a little
Watching the vet prepare the needle.
I will be missed, of that I’m certain,
As they close the final curtain.
But as my heart stops, hold no regrets.
For those loving hands I’m taking with me,
Those hands full of love I cannot see.
Kathy Henderson
8 - 1998
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