Connections continue to exist
Despite the daunting distance
Loving hard leads to an enlarged heart
Leaving left over capacity
To slice off a sliver to send up to the sky
At the same time have room to accept
Dedication of devotion sent down
Never forgetting the bond that was built
In spite of the sad separation
I thought of you this morning your sweet little face
your warm dark eyes your little paws
how you slept by me in the night, your soft snore
Only 14 still young for a small dog my family my friend
your heart was enlarged, seemed fit as your heart was large
and loving I thought of you this morning with warm tears
Falling down my face and you were alone
at the emergency vet they did not let me in
The Covid kept me out until that morning
When they said you most be put to sleep
Would I want to be there oh God
and I was and I kissed you and pat you
though I felt you sensed this shot was deadly
But I told you it would be okay and the pain
would go away and you were quiet and
your eyes finally became dull and your
enlarged heart stopped.
I thought of you this morning
and I thought of others mothers and fathers
lost too and alone with dull and lifeless eyes
Love gone
I had no family but my husband
who cried with me all of us human and pets
families loss death and life both warm and cruel
Boulevard zooms by in palm prison blur
Delerium fuels my top down journey
Escape life at high speed, danger's incur
Depicts regret like thick filed attorney
Fumes turned flumes hit my lung sponges ferny
Enlarged heart space flings caution beneath wheels
Tree smudged edges, adrenalin appeals
Fright factors in only when permitted
Uncatchable, amorous pulse reveals
To safety's brace, I'll not be submitted
22nd September 2020
Dizain Contest
Sponsor : Emile Pinet
My enlarged heart
not bears anomaly ... lives full
of love ....
I'm a convinced cardiac
so I love from the heart
who makes me pulse strongly ...
I live with a festive heart,
full of songs and flowers,
always an opened garden,
a watercolor of colors ...!
Where is that blating?
Looking all around
Trying to find the source
It sounds like a kid crying for its dam
Nowhere in sight is the evidence of the sound
Turn and look once more
From the direction of the babbling creek
Down where the Paper Birch stands
Skirted in native Bamboo
Where the coolness is so inviting
To a weary soul
Come sit, relax, enjoy the ions that refresh
The sound gets much louder there__
Then in the exact spot looking
There comes Rocky carrying a fawn
The fawn with his polished cleft small ebony hooves
Attached to his very long abnormal looking legs
Legs that are swinging back and forth for Rocky had him in the nape of his neck
This dappled child of the doe
Calling for its mother to come
To this day I can still hear his cry! BaMa.......
(OUr Rat Terrier who is fourteen years old
was diagnosed with an enlarged heart yesterday..
The vet say is treatable and he should live several
years..Just a memory of when he was young.)
I have a growing black cloud in my heart
My soul inside is slowly falling apart
The decay of my spirit can be seen in sad eyes
There is a growing attraction of this spectacle in an immeasurable size
A freak show circus has come to town in this black cloud
The audience comes with the currency of ridicule and judgment oh so proud!
They point and laugh and mock me oh so cleverly!
I am great for business because I am such a sad sight to see!
No one knows what is really behind the curtains of my dark eyes
Some where in my mind I pray for a quick demise
I care too much and willing show the vulnerable card
The audience mistakes my compassion for stupidity and labels me a retard
There will be a point in time when I am just gone one day
Some one will have to tell them the show is cancelled and to go away
No more freak boy with the enlarged heart
No more sensitive weirdo who is not too smart
No drowning fish who can not do anything right
Sorry your freak show was cancelled which brought you all such personal delight
The time has come to find a new human attraction
Some other poor bastard to mock for personal satisfaction
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