Kaleigh
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Lorelei, that is so beautiful and sweet. Bless your precious heart. I ache for you right now my dear friend. My heart is with your's tonight. Am so very sorry.Date: 4/14/2007 12:09:33 AM
Author: Lorelei
I couldn't sleep, so I came here to find even more wonderful messages from my PS friends, and they are helping my sore heart right now so much.
A huge and sincere thank you to Madam B ( thanks for the beautiful poem), Aljdewey, Kim, Sharon, DKS( good to see you), Lumpkin, Dixie, Maisie, Roppongi, Mara, Ankie, Crown, FG, dear Ellen ( thanks so much for the poem too), Skippy, MrsSalvo, Kate and Heather. I appreciate your kindess more than you will ever know.
I forgot that my beautiful golden horse was made of flesh and blood, he survived the disease which killed Barbaro and eventually was able to walk and run again like any other horse. The vets thought he would never walk again and he proved them wrong with his patience and immense courage, he did more than walk! He was shut into his stable for months while his feet healed, it is a long process, and he never got sour or dangerous towards me, an animal who loves freedom and depends on movement for his very survival. When the chips were down, my boy could bounce back and defy the odds. With experiences like that, time and time again I forget that one day they must leave me and go to that place beyond the sunset, it hurts. My Father who has also gone from here always used to say ' don't forget they are only ever lent to you' meaning my animals, and as much as I prefer to think they are mine and always will be, in the end I am forced to face reality time and time again that they don't belong to me. And I am made to revisit that dark place where pain and tears are familiar companions, and I don't want to go there. Yet I would face the pain a thousand thousand times and that much again for the privilege of being able to love and care for them and something inside me stirs at the prospect of having another day to help animals, as much as it hurts. This is how I can best pay tribute to my precious ones who have gone on before me.