[Eidlevice]: 521.Christmas without Ty

This is another about a dog but he was my grandparents dog and before I got Riley. He and I were inseparable. Ty in the story is Ashton, the little Shi Tzu that grandma and grandpa had.

So light, so slow

Soft but harsh

I watch flakes of snow
Outside my window

Christmas morn’ is here
But my Ty is not

I find his bed is empty,
His presents, gone
Why would he leave me on
Christmas morning?

I did not understand
His absence, I couldn’t
Bear

Why did my brother
Leave me to fight?
Did he not love me
Anymore?

Day by day, I wait at
My bed, looking out
Into white
Hoping, praying to see
Ty again

But he did not return,
As I feared

I still wait for Ty. I still
Hope, I pray

But no matter how hard I
Try, Ty never comes
Home

I am old, feeble. Ty is
Gone, I am not

I am in pain, Ty is
In a bed mortar and
Shrapnel

Is this war?