Goodbye to my Dear Friend…

Posted on March 26, 2008 
Filed Under News & Updates

rhett_thumb.jpgToday, I had to say goodbye to my best friend, Rhett. After being my best friend and companion for the past eight years, Rhett lost his fight with a cancerous tumor in his spleen. He was always there for me through the good and bad times and I knew that I could always count on him to raise my spirits. His departure leaves a hole in my heart that will not easily be healed.

Rhett: I know you are in a better place now. A place with an unlimited buffet of “Marrow Bones” and cute poodles that you can chase around. You know I’m going to miss you, but I’ll always have the memories that we made together. Farewell my friend… warm up a cloud for me.


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There’s a hole in my heart where a dog used to be.
He’s nuzzled my soul and is now part of me.
His pain is his life and I know what to do.
But when I release him, I’m losing me, too.

The dog that I cradled eight years ago
is a thirty pound bundle of love and I know
that he’d lick away all of my tears if he could.
It’s his sense of duty to make me feel good.

It’s my obligation to do what is best.
The love of his “master” is put to the test.
It’s a wrenching and sorrowful way that we part;
it doesn’t hurt less when the head rules the heart.

There’s a hole in my heart where my Rhett has passed through.
When we say goodbye part of me will go too.

- Modified poem written by Amy Waggoner -


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