I AM YOUR DOG
Author: J.D. Ellis
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 never 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; 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 wrong doing
for
just simple 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 other of my kind, passing.
Sometimes we die young and oh so quickly,
sometimes
so suddenly it wrenches your heart out of your
throat.
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 here next to
me
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 "alpha" or as
"trainer" or
even "Mom or Dad," come to me as a living soul and
stroke
my fur and let us look deep 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 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 to my ears. Speak
with
your heart, with your joy and I will know your
true
self. We may not have tomorrow, and life is oh so
