06-30-2015, 08:18 AM
Done With Dogs is now: Like A Dog
Like a Dog
Unlike people,
dogs don’t have to suffer.
When they grow old and lame,
so frail and broken, we can hold on,
talk slowly, weep softly,
as they’re put down.
My sister wanted to die like a dog.
I would have loved if she could have
seen us smiling, heard our good-byes,
kept cancer from catching her
all alone, drawing her down
its hideous hole.
Unlike dogs,
people have to suffer.
Like a Dog
Unlike people,
dogs don’t have to suffer.
When they grow old and lame,
so frail and broken, we can hold on,
talk slowly, weep softly,
as they’re put down.
My sister wanted to die like a dog.
I would have loved if she could have
seen us smiling, heard our good-byes,
kept cancer from catching her
all alone, drawing her down
its hideous hole.
Unlike dogs,
people have to suffer.