Showing posts with label Aubade. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Aubade. Show all posts

Thursday, February 15, 2024

Quiet Gifts

 

They were found

placed ever so neatly

on the stair.

 

A bit of dirt,

small twigs,

a crumpled leaf, in parts.

Evidence of

your last climb.

 

The last few hours

we’d hugged you,

pressed your paw,

fed you cookies,

gathered round

your bed.

 

How soundless

when pain leaves

the echoing room

with sunlight rising

and falling

 

on a

bit of dirt,

small twigs,

a crumpled leaf, in parts.

 

Small, quiet, final gifts

regretfully swept away

after parting.

 

© 2024 Jennifer Wagner

 

For Sumana’s prompt at What’s Going On?  Aubade (traditional or modern)

 

For our beloved labrador, Druke, 2000-2016.