AMessageFromMax

A Message from Max

My name is Max and I have a little something I'd like to
whisper in your ear. I know that you humans lead busy lives.
Some have to work, some have children to raise. It always
seems like you are running here and there, often much too
fast, often never noticing the truly grand things in life.

Look down at me now, while you sit there at your computer.
See the way my dark brown eyes look at yours? They are
slightly cloudy now, that comes with age. The grey hairs are
beginning to ring my soft muzzle. You smile at me; I see love
in your eyes. What do you see in mine? Do you see a spirit,
a soul inside who loves you as no other could in the world?
A spirit that would forgive all trespasses of prior wrong
doing for just a simple moment of your time? That is all I ask.
To slow down if even for a few minutes to be with me.

So many times you have been saddened by the words you
read on that screen, of others of my kind passing. Sometimes
we die young and oh so quickly, sometimes so suddenly
it wrenches your heart out of your throat. Sometimes we
age so slowly before your eyes that you do not even seem
to know, until they very end, when we look at you with
grizzled muzzles and cataract clouded eyes.

Still the love is always there, even when we take that long
sleep, to run free in distant lands. I may not be here
tomorrow; I may not be here next week. Someday you will
shed the waters from your eyes, that human have when
deep grief fills their souls, and you will be angry at yourself
that you did not have just "One more day" with me.

Because I love you so, your sorrow touches my spirit and
grieves me. We have now, together. So come, sit down
here next to me on the floor. And look deep into my eyes.
What do you see? If you look hard and deep enough we
will talk you and I, heart to heart. Come to me not as "alpha"
or as a "trainer" or even a "Mom or Dad", come to me as
a living soul and stroke my fur and let us look deep into
one another's eyes, and talk.

I may tell you something about the fun of chasing a tennis ball,
or I may tell you something profound about myself, or even
life in general. You decided to have me in your life (I hope)
because you wanted a soul to share just such things with.
Someone very different from you, and here I am.

I am a dog, but I am alive. I feel emotion, I feel physical senses,
and I can revel in the differences of our spirits and souls.
I do not think of you as a "Dog on two feet" I know what you are.
You are human, in all your quirkiness, and I love you still.

Now, come sit with me, on the floor. Enter my world, and let
time slow down if even for only 15 minutes. Look deep in
my eyes, and whisper to my ears. Speak with your heart,
with your joy and I will know your true self.

We may not have tomorrow, and life is oh so very short.

Love,

Max, (on behalf of all canines everywhere)"