For Hobbes, The Frog Poem by Cosi Celeste

This is for Hobbes...my beautiful miniature schnauzer.

I awoke knowing you were leaving.
For years I’d felt you next to me as we slept,
your body filling the contours of my body
your warmth encouraging my own.

I awoke knowing it would never be the same again.
For a moment I hoped it was a dream.
There might be others,
but none other.

I awoke knowing I would have to watch you go.
To avert my eyes would rob me of your worth.
I had to know the pain of losing you…
To mark the moment when you were last here.

I awoke knowing that while a gift my greatest gift was loving you.
I awoke aware that you’d left me with all you could give me,
and resigned myself to the smile you left on my heart.