I Still See You When I Dream

Grammy Writes,

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Last night
you joined me in my dream.
We took a walk
like we always used to do
to that place
you always loved
down by the river.
I threw a stick
into the shallows and you ran
as if a ghost dog
I couldn’t see
might get there first.
You brought it back to me
and dropped it at my feet,
looking up with the happiest face
I’d ever seen…
free of pain… of weariness… and burden.
At the end of my dream
you trotted off to your heavenly home
wagging your tail
just so I’d know
you didn’t mind.
I woke up to another day without you
but I smiled!

This one’s for you, Heidi Girl, to commemorate what would have been your 17th birthday. It is a follow-up to my post A Poem for Heidi

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  6. I have a friend who raised a Doberman from a newborn pup through death. Then he did it again with a new baby Dobe. When that one died he said he was done. He couldn’t do it again. It hurt too much at the end. That was 40 years ago and he has never had another dog.

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