This is What I Call a Loyal Love
“There is no loyalty greater than the love of a loyal dog.” By Author
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This is What I call Loyal Love
If man can measure loyalty
And gauge devoted love for man
Then the yardstick was my Roxy,
Even more loyal than a friend;
Mothered like babes since childhood days
Raised in splendour like a princess
She had learnt to grasp human ways,
Their joys, their sorrows and distress;
Each of her wag brightened the heart
Like sparks of the sunshine of spring,
From her eyes, loyalty would dart
From her pat devotion would cling;
She was ever first to welcome
The master with her wagging tail,
Her leaps and embrace so awesome
And her waltz lovely without fail;
Whether in the shine of the day
Or in the grim darkness of night
Like soldier she would guard the way
With loyalty ever so bright;
A companion for garden walks
She would sniff all along the place
Grasping whatever I would talk
As she strolled by my side with grace;
She would share the master`s sad ply
By lying straight in from of him
And staring at him in the eyes
With her eyes with tears close to brim.
When fate`s hand was close by her side
After fourteen long lengthy years
She opted for her kennel`s pride
Than inside the home to shed tears;
Though meted out a surgery
With thirty stiTches without cry
She was beyond recovery
And passed away without a sigh;
Her funeral, a sheer glory,
And her grave on a high-pitched land
Was a match to her loyalty
Glimmering brighter than a man.
Gone she`s with the family`s heart
Like a jar shattered in fragments
Like a piece of rag torn apart,
Such to her was our attachment;
Let fidelity be your name
So dedicated was your love,
Ever adored would be your fame
With your loyalty miles above.
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