I Am Your Dog
I am your dog
and I have a little something I'd like to whisper in your ear. I know that you
humans lead busy lives. Some have to work, some have children to raise. It
always seems like you are running here and there, often much too fast, often not
noticing the truly grand things in life.
Look down at me now, while
you sit there at your computer. See the way my dark brown eyes look at yours?
They are slightly cloudy now. That comes with age. The gray hairs are beginning
to ring my soft muzzle.
You smile at me and I see love in your eyes. What do you see in mine? Do you see
a spirit? A soul inside, who loves you as no other could in the world? A spirit
that would forgive all trespasses of prior wrongdoing for just a moment of your
time? That is all I ask. To slow down, if even for a few minutes, to be with
me. So many times you have been saddened by the words you read on that screen,
of others of my kind passing. Sometimes we die young and oh so quickly.
Sometimes we age so slowly before your eyes that you may not even seem to know
until the very end, when we look at you with grizzled muzzles and cataract
clouded eyes. Still the love is always there, even when we must take that long
sleep to run free in a distant land.
I may not be here tomorrow. I may not be here next week. Someday you will shed
the water from your eyes that humans have when deep grief fills their souls, and
you will be angry at yourself that you did not have just one more day with me.
Because I love you so, your sorrow touches my spirit and grieves me. We have now
together. So come sit down next to me here on the floor, and look deep into my
eyes. What do you see? If you look hard and deep enough we will talk, you and I,
heart to heart. Come to me not as an alpha, or as a trainer, or even as mom and
dad. Come to me as a living soul and stroke my fur and let us look into one
another's eyes and talk. I may tell you something about the fun of chasing a
tennis ball, or I may tell you something profound about myself, or even about
life in general. You decided to have me in your life because you wanted a soul
to share such things with. Someone very different from you; and here I am. I am
a dog, but I am alive. I feel emotion, I feel physical senses, and I can revel
in the differences of our
spirits and souls. I do not think of you as a dog on two feet; I know what you
are. You are human, in all your quirkiness, and I love you still.
Now, come sit with me on the floor. Enter my world, and let time slow down if
only for 15 minutes. Look deep into my eyes and whisper into my ears. Speak with
your heart and with your joy, and I will know your true self. We may not have
tomorrow, and life is so very short.
Love,
Your Dog