05/17/2023
Reflecting on Mother’s Day this past weekend and sharing this poem from our friends at Huskies in the Hatch for all our dog moms out there. ♥️
Sometimes
A poem for dog moms
Sometimes life has other plans
And your child is born with four
Four legs to keep you busy
With more hair than you asked for
Sometimes they’re your only child
Or one of two or three
With ears and nails
Eyebrows and tails
All part of one family
Sometimes they get scared at night
And crawl into your bed
Then tuck their cold, wet nose
so tight, up against your head
And just like children,
it’s a struggle
to help them learn and grow
To sit and stay
and run and play
and when to stop and go.
Sometimes you whisper softly
And gaze into their eyes
While other times their angsty screams
Make you want to cry
And sometimes one you didn’t raise
Becomes your very own
You learn to save each other
And become each other’s home
But unlike children,
when it comes
the time to say goodbye
The furry ones
don’t leave your home,
they go up to the sky.
So sometimes there’s a mother
Without the one she loves
Who feels more like she has a child
Looking from above
And sometimes,
just sometimes (if you’re lucky)
Your story starts again
Late night cries
Echo the skies
A song of now and then
Sometimes life has other plans
When labels fade away
Two or four, less hair or more
Happy Mother’s Day
Art by: Lucy Campbell
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