Love Hurts
- Keith Trayling
- Jun 6
- 1 min read
Updated: Jun 9
Many years since he has gone.
Time has passed and life moves on.
The pain subsides, the ache remains.
The memories of that loss still reigns.
Nothing is free, there's always a cost.
For what was loved and now is lost.
Forever we would be together,
Though stormy days and sunny weather.
Nowhere else I wanted to be.
Side by side, just him and me.
Walking fields and forest floors.
What's yours was mine, what's mine was yours.
Knowing there could be no other.
Faithful love for each other.
TIme does pass and we lived as one,
Not thinking that the day would come,
When we would be together no more,
As Merryck laid apon the floor.
I held him to my aching heart.
The time had come for us to part.
He looked at me with those loving eyes.
Without a word we said our goodbyes.
The needle entered his shaven paw.
Overwhelmed with grief and sorrow,
He slips away aand I can't follow.
Love is pain, it has a price.
It must be paid, there is no choice.
( Written as a couplet rhyme,
As I was his and he was mine.)
A Moving tribute and very well written, I have been there and you have my heart felt sympathy…..the more people I meet the more I love my dog (my favourite t-shirt)
Moved me greatly Keith, the price for years of love and devotion, comfort is high for sure.
That's lovely Keith
An excellent poem Keith, touching, moving without being overly sentimental. I rarely make suggestions about poem but I know you will take it in good faith. I think that perhaps you don't need the explanation of how he dies and that the poem could end on goodbyes. Or take out the next three lines and keep the rest. I know that leaves it slightly ambiguous as to who Merryck was but I quite like that.
I like it... and it sounds a chord with so many who have suffered similar loss.