Pets and the Inevitable Goodbye by Jim Burbridge

They’ll say to not be sad.

For they were “Just a pet”

But we know the truth in the words

couldn’t be farther yet


still people will try

to save the sting of

when your pet will die.


They’ll have joined you one day

many years passed it’s been.

not so many you’d never remember

but so many now you’d love to live again.


The signs sneak up on you,

your eyes always seeing their younger self.

But soon you realize,

they need so much more of your help.


A part of you they’ve been to you

but their all you’ve been to them

it’s hard to see the signs

through all your love


Of your pet’s Inevitble Goodbye