July 24th 2006 9:24 pm
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BONITA

Bonita, my beauty, my best little friend,
I’ve loved you and loved you, right up to the end.

I guess I thought you’d just live forever,
And you made it to 19, I wanted it to never
Never end, this 9th life of yours
I’ll miss your meows, your love, your purrs.

And I’ll miss your sweet face while you sat on my knee
Those pretty green eyes just gazing at me
With love and affection, and always with trust
I didn’t want to let you go, but knew that I must…

You endured all the surgeries, and pills galore
You took them so well, but now there’s no more
No more suffering…no hurting…and now no more pain…
You’ve gone to the Rainbow Bridge, a new life to gain.

You’ll meet with your sisters and brother and mother,
And look up your old friend Fred, and maybe some other.
You’ll find all your Catster friends who’ve gone on before,
And make lots of new friends up there on that shore.

And I know you’ll be waiting and watching for me
I’ll never forget you—I wish it could be
That you were still here with me so that every day
I’d see your pretty face,
But I know that it must be this way.

You gave me so much across all these years,
I’ll have a hard time now, to see through my tears
But I’ll always love you, my little fur friend,
And keep you in my heart right up to the end.

Good-bye, Sweet Bonita…til we meet again.

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