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RAVEN
8/1/95 - 1/19/09

I can hardly see through my tears... today I sent my best friend of years
and years somewhere she had to go, where pain and sickness she won't have to know.
She's been with me ever since she was a pup... today I've had to give her up.
She was sick, we both knew it and I wouldn't put her through it.

Thinking back to the day we brought her home, thinking of the vet appointments and...
the noise and mess and bills to pay!" - I can't believe I felt that way.
Didn't know that in the end, she would be my dearest friend.
Didn't know that she would be the greatest gift that came to me.

How did one like me deserve a friend who wanted just to serve?
What was there that made her love me, with nobody else above me?
When I looked into her eyes, never did she criticize,
never did she hold a grudge, never did she try to judge.

Recently, an anxious day. "How come you don't want to play?"
Took her to the vet to see what might be wrong with my "puppy".
Worse by far than I expected, old age and sickness was detected.
Nothing much that we could do but keep her comfy til she's through.

Back at home I tried to tell her of the bad luck that befell her
All I could see in her eyes was wondering why her master cries.
I don't think she understood - her eyes just asked "Wasn't I good?"
"How come now I make you glum? Let me kiss and hug you, mom".

Two last weeks I had to try to find a way to say goodbye.
In that time I told her more than I ever had before
just how much I loved my pup, how it hurt to give her up.
she'd always be inside my heart, a part of me forever.

Then today was no mistaking, I made the decision, my heart was breaking.
I called and made that dreaded appointment- I didn't want to do it.
We arrived there a little later and the vet asked "Are you ready?" I sighed, I nodded, I felt so unsteady.
Got down on the floor by my girl who was dying, and I just didn't care if the vet saw me crying.

As my pup slipped away, the last things she felt were the kisses and hugs of her master who knelt
On that "blankie" beside her to bid her goodbye, who had just one more minute to tell her to try
to say thanks to her girl for a lifetime of love.... "Dear God, let me see her in heaven above!
But for now Lord, please hold her and watch over her,
and if she wakes in Your arms tell her I love her so much."