Sammy my precious feline companion passed away on December 3rd. I am grateful she left as gently and swiftly as she did. She left a huge void for such a small beast.
For Sammy:
Some things are more present
in their absence,
things once and forever loved, now outgrown their useful
lifespan.
Tools that once made a life, now abandoned.
Relationships broken, discarded,
but still reminding us of what
never really was.
Beings once here, that
Angel Raphael’s tender touch has taken.
And all those things that were their everyday existence:
combs with hair still entwined,
their pillows, their pictures,,
are all imbued with the presence
of what is
not here.