For Sare Bear

I am not doing so well. My back legs are really giving out, and all I want to eat are my treats. However, if Orange Effer crosses my path, I can still give him my best Chuck Norris effort. I have to say, I have been a fighter all of my life and that isn't going to change just because my old back legs don't work!

About two months ago my best dog friend ever, Sare Bear, passed over The Rainbow Bridge. She was as sweet and gentle as I am old and curmudgeonly. We met when she was two years old and I was about 3 months old. She drooled when she saw me, and really, who can blame her? I was so doggone cute and she would have been a good mama. She was the only dog who could ever put me in my place. I miss her and know that someday I will join her and we can play again like the pups we used to be not so very long ago. I can cross that bridge myself, knowing that she will be there to greet me.

Just this side of heaven is a place called Rainbow Bridge.

When an animal dies that has been especially close to someone here, that pet goes to Rainbow Bridge.
There are meadows and hills for all of our special friends so they can run and play together.
There is plenty of food, water and sunshine, and our friends are warm and comfortable.

All the animals who had been ill and old are restored to health and vigor; those who were hurt or maimed are made whole and strong again, just as we remember them in our dreams of days and times gone by.
The animals are happy and content, except for one small thing; they each miss someone very special to them, who had to be left behind.

They all run and play together, but the day comes when one suddenly stops and looks into the distance. His bright eyes are intent; His eager body quivers. Suddenly he begins to run from the group, flying over the green grass, his legs carrying him faster and faster.

You have been spotted, and when you and your special friend finally meet, you cling together in joyous reunion, never to be parted again. The happy kisses rain upon your face; your hands again caress the beloved head, and you look once more into the trusting eyes of your pet, so long gone from your life but never absent from your heart.

Then you cross Rainbow Bridge together....

For now, I take it one day at a time, but I have been wanting to put this poem on my blog in tribute to my beautiful friend, Sare Bear.