Remembrance
remembrance of a pain I can't define
something touching Loss and losing definition
having held such Sweet Remembrance, now torn,
cruelly broken from its taut embrace
your love,
swift as silent tears
all wagging body and devoted heel -
now gone, incoherent with stillness ever changing
forever I shall miss your blue eyes searching
holding on with such calm tenacity, question and wonder
your seemingly endless fight not to lose
not forgetting how hard I fought alongside you
how hard I would hug your
safe warmth, all fur and fire, alert
to nocturnal symphonies
you would lift all muzzle to the frozen
stars and chase unseen Demons back to Hades
Remembrance: gossamer glow of after-dream
twilight sensation of touching sorrow
left quivering in its still-born hour of
Unborn Gloom
with indescribable emptiness shall I always
remember you: a Puppy that never lived to be a Dog . . .
and though I romp with another - he is not you, my Lance,
he loves with fatal limitation
his intensity is fragile
he never ached like you
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