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Hi and thank you all that have signed up for my pet loss poems newsletter.
I am sending out a copy of my first newsletter on pet loss and hope it will help you in some small way.
Please feel free to contact me using the contact seller button on ebay, and I will be happy to give you my email address if you would like to talk, or want some more of the poems that have helped me.
I have recently found a great website called GoneTooSoon dot org (replace the dot, with a period and remove any spaces).
There you can post pix of your beloved pet, as well as share stories, or whatever your heart desires.
You will find that the people that share that site are so very loving and supportive.
They will light candles, give you words of encouragement, and share beautiful poems and stories, to mourn with you over your pets loss.
Please check it out.
Here is my first pet loss newsletter dated Jan 2008.
Hugs~ Teres
This is the first issue, and it is bittersweet, because of the subject matter.
I want to say right off that I truly understand the devastation and heartbreak, when you lose a beloved pet, and I am always here, if you feel you need to talk, vent, cry, or just share stories of your precious pet.
Ebay will not let me include my email address in this letter, but I believe it is at the very bottom of the page, with all of ebays legal stuff- if not, feel free to use the ask seller a question button, and I'll be happy to give you my email address.
Non pet lovers, just don't understand that losing a pet, can be just as devastating as losing a human loved one.
I was one of those people until I got Annie, and then Star.
I never understood people that called their pets their kids, or that you could love an animal so much.
Not until I got 2 little ones in my life, that changed my life, and LITERALLY saved it, when I was going through the darkest period of my life.
Annie was 2 months old, when she stole my heart at the local Humane Society (5 years ago in Sept 2008).
Having never been able to have children, and going through Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, (and severe depression etc etc), I felt like I was on the edge of a cliff, looking into the blackness below, waiting to take that final step off into the nothingness. Because LIFE just hurt toooooo much.
I NEEDED something to love.
Wow! Am I baring my soul here! But I know that a lot of you can understand, because you have been there- I feel it's fair to share a little, so that you know, that I TRULY do understand the depth of love and heart, that true pet lovers give to their pets.
Because after all the years of hurt, my life changed for the better the minute that God gave me Annie to love.
That dog has brought me the peace and love I have wanted all my life.
She truly is the sunshine, laughter, love and joy, of every single day.
The adoration, the love, knowing that no matter what I do, she will always adore me and consider me hers.
She is the best medication for any owies in the world.
And, she LOVES to make me laugh- funny girl.
She holds my heart, and forever will.
And then there's Star, my beautiful Siberian Husky puppy, that I lost to Parvo when she was only 4 months old (I'd had her since she was 5 weeks, because the owners were taking her siblings and mama to the lb).
Star died 3 years ago this March 2008.
She was my beautiful sweet, sneaky puppy with the blue eyes, and too big ears, that she never got the chanve to grow into.
As I watched her and held her the day she got sick, and I was told that she was so sick, the best thing I could do for her, was to put her to sleep- my heart felt like it was shattering into little pieces.
But I can still picture her sweet little face, with the star on her nose- just looking up at me ss beseechingly. Mama, I hurt.
One of the hardest and saddest days of my life.
That I still cry about to this day.
My beautiful baby, that never got the chanve to grow into her ears.
The heartache was unbearable.
I felt like I had failed my baby somehow, so the guilt was terrible too.
And yet, sometimes still, I hear Star say, "It's ok mama, I love you and I'm here."
And I know she is......sometimes I can feel her presence so strongly, and others, I see 1 lone star in the sky, and it twinkles at me, and I know it's Star watching over me.
The pets that share our lives, will always live on in our hearts, and I have to believe that someday, I will hold Star once again.
With that, I want to tell you how truly, truly sorry I am for the pain, desolation and loss you suffer, whenever one of our beloved pets cross over to that place that I call "Just a bridge away". (That's a poem I wrote, and will share with you soon).
Right now, I want you to close your eyes and think of your loyal companion, and imagine them in a field filled with flowers, running about and chasing butterflies, like a new puppy all over again. No more pains for them, just the one from knowing that they can't yet ease our pain of losing them.
But they are just a bridge away- waiting for us patiently, and watching over us.
Here is one of my favorite poems (so far), I want you to just feel it, and know.that you are not alone.
It's entitled I remember, and the author is unknown.
I Remember
I stood by your bed last night, I came to have a peep.
I could see that you were crying. You found it hard to sleep.
I whined to you softly as you brushed away a tear,
"It's me, I haven't left you, I'm well, I'm fine, I'm here."
I was close to you at breakfast, I watched you pour the tea,
You were thinking of the many times your hands reached down to me.
I was with you at the shops today. Your arms were getting sore.
I longed to take your parcels, I wish I could do more.
I was with you at my grave today, You tend it with such care.
I want to re-assure you, that I'm not lying there.
I walked with you towards the house, as you fumbled for your key.
I gently put my paw on you, I smiled and said "It's me."
You looked so very tired, and sank into a chair.
I tried so hard to let you know, that I was standing there.
It's possible for me to be so near you everyday.
To say to you with certainty, "I never went away."
You sat there very quietly, then smiled, I think you knew...
in the stillness of that evening, I was very close to you.
The day is over... I smile and watch you yawning
and say "Good-night, God bless, I'll see you in the morning."
And when the time is right for you to cross the brief divide,
I'll rush across to greet you and we'll stand, side by side.
I have so many things to show you, there is so much for you to see.
Be patient, live your journey out... then come home to be with me.
- Author unknown
My heart and love goes out to every single one of you, that have signed up for this newsletter- I know your pain.
And I promise, I will be here for you if you ever need me- because it takes a petlover to understand the devastating grief and loss we feel, when we lose the ones that brought such love & joy to our lives, for so little in return.
It's ok to mourn them well- they've enriched our lives a million fold, don't ever let anyone tell you to get over it, because once a pet has owned your heart, they will own it forever.
My hand is here for you to hold, my arms there when you need a hug, and I will always be here to share the beautiful memories your pet made just for you.
Love from Teres & Annie the lab, and Star chasing butterflies at the bridge.
stardustnites
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