Pup Love

To love a dog is to know near certain heartbreak

Mismatched lifespans leave little escape

Putting their lives in our hands; we watch on helpless

Yet what would life be without this vulnerable mess?

When they come at us with such unmoored abandon

Love with a force fearful humans hardly fathom

Grand illusion we signed up for this love, we’d like to maintain

No choice but to love back; sign me up please -- again and again!

—

Reena

9/9/2020

Dusk

That stage of life where the losses ahead more numerous, known

No escape routes, just one foot before the other

And on and on we go looking up; face them squarely most days

Yet some days crushed, exhausted I rest for a better fight tomorrow...

___

Reena
8/29/2020