Dedicated to my newly departed Dog Katie and her precious litter of 5. I will miss her and all the joy her babies would have brought.
You came like a thief in the night
Stealing sight from tiny eyes
whisking away breath from the tiniest lungs
Carrying with you the pitter patter of heartbeats
You came as an angel in disguise
Taking warmth from frail bodies
Sucking out the sound of soft cries
Capturing all hope those little ones bring
You came as a wolf in sheep's clothing
Tearing away the thought of kisses
Making the emptiness of hunger your home
Stiffening the walk that was never walked
You came like a thief in the night
Stealing laughter from many hearts
Whisking away dreams of nuzzled noses
Carrying with you the sounds of the world around
I am so sorry for your loss. We have raised and loved 9 Rottweilers in the past 14 years. We lost mom and son within 48 hrs. of each other and the second son exactly one year later. Dad left us the two years before that. We had a healthy 9 month old go outside and one minute later just laid down and died. Another died from Parvo at 9 months. We now have a rescue Rottie who was severly abused, a nine month old, who is a little spit fire and my boy, A wonderful 7 yr. old. I can't tell you the pain will go away but it will age like wine, always there but softer with time. A wonderful poem you penned.
Contraband Marriage, traveling along the hemline of loving after incarceration, is a love story written in lyric and free form, set in reality with a different ever after.
From First Love to its destructive end and on to new beginnings, Mary Angela Nangini's poems explore the birth and death of a relationship. The powerful poems are presented in two parts with an introduction to her next book My Ontario Beautiful. (Th
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