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OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

0 posted 2013-07-28 07:15 PM

BEN
27 July 2013

May you have felt
my love
for you,
the only love
you ever knew,
in the glorious winter sunshine
on your ridgeback
wherever you are
this sunny day,
my darling, puppy love.

May you forgive me
not for my sake,
but yours
and may you know
in the depth
of your loving heart
that though
my plans
I whispered
to you
over the fence
failed,

I tried
and tried
and tried,
and didn’t give up,
even after
your owners snatched you away
and gave me 2 different stories
of which town you are in,

but all that counts for nothing
because I failed you
and was unable
to save you from
your future of neglect.

Please hear me
every day
across the ether
when I talk to you
and most of all,
know that Auntie Di
loves you
so very much
and prays for you
every day
that God will find a way,
preferably that your owners
change their mind
and agree to sell you.
I can live with the anguish
of not knowing,
if you can just find
a loving, caring home.

I must admit,
Ben, sweetie-pie,
that even
if I hadn’t tried
to do it
the kind way
for your owners
and eventually
the negotiation way,
I don’t know
how I could have
done it any other way,
because the legal way
could have ended you up
in an SPCA cage
for the time
between the court order
and the finalisation
of the court case,
which could have taken
a year or more
which is worse
than your current life,
and then the owners
may still have won the case,
and you would have been
worse off
than you are now.

If we could have
saved you,
we had a wonderful
loving, caring,
foster - and possibly permanent - home
waiting for you
for as long as you needed it
(Auntie Di inspected it),
and we would have
found you a permanent home
where you were showered
with love and attention
as you could never dream of.

Auntie Di
is going to try
to change the laws
even if it takes 10 years
or more
to succeed
or fail
though it probably
won’t help you,
but maybe
it will help
other doggies
in the future.

I gut-scrape-ache for you
every moment of every day
my darling
puppy,
Ben.

Please remember
how much
I love you, Ben sweetheart,
with every teardrop
of my heart.

A torn and tattered Owl

EmmaRose
Senior Member

since 2011-03-02

Posts 1376
Midwest

1 posted 2013-07-28 07:37 PM

this rips at the heartseems Dear Owl, in bittersweet reminder of how they depend on us humans to do all we can to get them through their often wretched lives. Thankfully there are great Owls and some other good ones out here for them, though this is sad in tone

OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

2 posted 2013-07-30 01:31 AM

Thank you, EmmaRose. No matter how hard I tried to save him, my efforts mean nothing, because I failed, and he is living a life of neglect and I don't know where.

Owl

secondhanddreampoet
Member Ascendant

since 2006-11-07

Posts 6394
a 'Universalist' !

3 posted 2013-08-07 11:07 PM

a most emotive and heart-felt write and an effective indictment of an all-too-common reality in this sad, 'ol world ... well said!

There are a number of animals (and people) I wish I could have saved along the way ...

OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

4 posted 2013-08-08 03:04 AM

Thank you, Bruce. Ben's situation ravages me.

Owl

suthern

Member Seraphic

since 1999-07-29

Posts 20723
Louisiana

5 posted 2013-08-14 12:56 PM

Please remember
how much
I love you, Ben sweetheart,
with every teardrop
of my heart.

He knows, dear friend... for animals read our hearts. And whatever his future, he will remember that you gave him unconditional love and would have given more if circumstances had allowed.

Heart hugs to you both.

OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

6 posted 2013-08-14 05:53 PM

Thank you, Ruth, my dear, kind, understanding friend. I hope he is remembering, because that was the only love he ever knew. It rips me apart that he is alone, cold, hungry, and not being fed the right food, but most of all unloved, and regarded solely as a burglar alarm. I will send your hugs to him over the ether and just hope he gets them, and mine.

Owl

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