When Dogs Go To Heaven

they don’t wait in lines don’t knock on doors don’t ask for permission to come inside they just run full speed through golden fields paws never knowing ache again tongues hanging loose, catching the wind like they never stopped chasing the sky when dogs go to heaven they don’t cry at the gates don’t bow their heads don’t beg for a place to rest they just find it under the biggest tree, where the shade is cool and the ground is soft where the air smells like home and the voices they missed are calling their name when dogs go to heaven they don’t say goodbye don’t feel the weight of leaving don’t wonder if they were enough they just know because love like that doesn’t fade it stretches, it lingers, it waits and when we finally get there they’ll come running tails wagging, tongues out like not a single day has passed