Dogs never die.
They
don't know how to. They get tired, and very old, and their bones hurt. Of
course they don't die.
If they did they would not want to always go for a walk,
even long after their old bones say "No, nor not a good idea. Let’s not go
for a walk." Nope, dogs always want to go for a walk. They might take one
step before their aging tendons collapse them into a heap on the floor, but that’s
what dogs are. They walk.
It’s not that they dislike your company. On the contrary, a
walk with you is all there is. Their boss, and the cacophonous symphony of odour
that the world is. Cat poop, another dog's mark, a rotting chicken bone (exultation),
and you. That’s what makes their world perfect, and in a perfect world death
has no place.
However, dogs get very very sleepy. That’s the thing, you
see. They don't teach you that at the fancy university where they explain about
quarks, gluttons, and Keynesian economics. They know so much they forget that
dogs never die. It’s a shame, really. Dogs have so much to offer and people just
talk a lot.
When you think your dog has died, it has just fallen asleep
in your heart. And by the way, it is wagging its tail madly, you see, and that’s
why your chest hurts so much and you cry all the time.
Who would not cry with a happy dog wagging its tail in their
chest?
Ouch! Wap wap wap wap wap, that hurts. But they only wag
when they wake up. That’s when they say "Thanks Boss! Thanks for a warm
place to sleep and always next to your heart, the best place.”
When they first fall asleep, they wake up all the time, and
that’s why, of course, you cry all the time. Wap, wap, wap. After a while they
sleep more (remember, a dog while is not a human while. You take your dog for
walk; it’s a day full of adventure in an hour. Then you come home and its a
week, well one of your days, but a week, really, before the dog gets another
walk. No WONDER they love walks.)
Anyway, like I was saying they fall asleep In your heart,
and when they wake up, they wag their tall. After a few dog years, they sleep
for longer naps, and you would too.
They were a GOOD DOG all their life, and you both know lt.
It gets tiring being a good dog all the time, particularly when you get old and
your bones hurt and you fall on your face and don't want to go outside to pee
when it is raining but do anyway, because you are a good dog.
So understand, after they have been sleeping in your heart,
they will sleep longer and longer. But don't get fooled. They are not "dead."
There's no such thing, really. They are sleeping in your heart, and they will
wake up usually when you're not expecting it. Is just who they are.
I feel sorry for people who don't have dogs sleeping in
their heart. You've missed so much. Excuse me I have to go cry now.
I don't know where or when I found it but it is so good that I had to repeat it.
