クリスマスに犬友達が送ってくれた詩。
作者不明で、ちょっと冗長な気もするが、「犬の十戒」みたなチンケなやつ
よりずっと気に入っている。犬自身はこんなこと考えちゃいないだろうけど
私たち人間に大事なことってなにか、わからせてくれると思う。
I AM YOUR DOG
Author Unknown
I am your dog, and I have a little something I would like to whisper
in your ear.
I know that you humans lead busy lives. Some have to work. Some have
children to raise. It always seems like you are running here and
there, often much too fast, often never noticing the truly grand
things in life.
Look down at me now, while you sit there at your computer. See, the
way my dark brown eyes look at yours. They are slightly cloudy now.
That comes with age. The gray hairs are beginning to ring my soft
muzzle.
You smile at me; I see love in your eyes. What do you see in mine? Do
you see a spirit? A soul inside, who loves you as no other could in
the world? A spirit that would forgive all trespasses of prior
wrongdoing for just a simple moment of your time?
That is all I ask. To slow down, if even for a few minutes to be with
me.
So many times, you have been saddened by the words you read on that
screen, of other of my kind, passing. Sometimes we die young and oh
so quickly, sometimes so suddenly it wrenches your heart out of your
throat. Sometimes, we age so slowly before your eyes that you may not
even seem to know until
the very end, when we look at you with grizzled muzzles and cataract
clouded eyes. Still the love is always there, even when we must take
that long sleep, to run free in a distant land.
I may not be here next week. Someday you will shed the water from
your eyes, that humans have when deep grief fills their souls, and
you will be angry at yourself that you did not have just "One more
day" with me. Because I love you so, your sorrow touches my spirit
and grieves me. We have NOW, together.