I will never know what I did to deserve such an awful life full of abuse
and neglect.
My life had become so sad and lonely it was like living in an endless,
dark tunnel.
I remember looking up one day and seeing a bright light shining at
the end of the tunnel.
The light was so bright I thought that God must have sent an angel
to finally end my suffering.
God did send an angel, he sent you.
The bright light I had seen was your smiling face.
You promised me that my days of neglect and abuse were over.
My battered body and broken spirit hardly dared to believe it was true.
You opened your heart and your home and gave me more love and comfort
and safety
than I had ever known before.
You gave me the softest bed my tired, aching bones had ever felt
and more toys and attention than I had ever dreamed existed.
I no longer cringed when a hand was raised near me,
because your hands had only kindness and treats to offer me.
I no longer feared the sound of feet approaching,
because your feet had never kicked me,
they had only taken me on wonderful adventures to exciting new places.
Although "quantity" of time can be measured in days and weeks,
there is no way to measure the "quality" of time.
So there is no way to really measure just how deeply your love and
devotion affected my life.
But sometimes, even love & devotion and all the medical attention
in the world
can't heal a body that has been battered and broken for too long.
So please do not be sad that I am gone.
You performed a miracle in what little time we had together.
You made my spirits soar and helped my soul find peace and contentment.
From the day I met you I never suffered again, not even at the end.
Just knowing that my memory would live in your heart forever gave me
the
strength to let go and find my way to Rainbow Bridge.
So go forward from today with only happy memories of me in your heart
and
let them give you the strength to keep on lighting up sad, lost lives.
Remember I will live forever in your heart and in the stars up above
and my star
will shine brighter with every life that's touched by your love.
"Until we meet again..."
In Memory of Any Dog
Original version by M. Consuelo Polo Delgado
Translated by Jesus Ceamanos
ADPCA - Adopt a dog
http://www.zaragoza.net/adpca
This is not for you, beautiful specimen,
showing your shiny fur in dog food commercials.
This is not for you, gorgeous felt puppy,
which everybody likes.
This is for you, bunch of bones,
dog without owner, skittish,
walking across the tracks of my country, Spain.
This is for you, hunting dog,
already old, lost your sense of smell,
your owner decided not to share with him your useless old age,
your life ended with a good shot.
You were not so lucky,
they did not want to waste a cartridge,
were abandoned in the open country,
your agony was long, painful, a trap trapped you.
This is for you, shepherd dog,
fellow in a thousand of suns and stars, maybe the happiest.
This is for you, involuntary kamikaze,
blown up in pieces,
victim and innocent accomplice of the wickedness of man against man.
This is for you, my friend,
that in your endless goodness
move your tail to the one who inoculates you
with a lethal virus or cuts off a limb in the experimentation bench
of a hospital.
This is for you, poor abandoned dog,
from door to door, begging for some food,
your insistent tenderness bothered someone,
so you appeared one chilly morning with your body riddled with bullets.
This is for you, shelter dogs,
piled up waiting for an adoption,
without pedigree,
the human vanity does not want you.
This is for you, already just a skin smashed on the road.
For you all, my heart cries.