Bye-bye, Toby

I'm very sad because my dear friend, DeAnn, lost her dear Toby. He was old but I still remember when he wasn't. I had never had a friend with a boxer breed dog and so he was the first one. Since then, their family has added others but none are Toby. This is for DeAnn, Les, Charles, James and Samuel:

Tribute to a Best Friend
Sunlight streams through window pane unto a spot on the floor....

Then I remember, It's where you used to lie, but now you are no more.

Our feet walk down a hall of carpet, and muted echoes sound....

Then I remember, It's where your paws would joyously abound.

A voice is heard along the road, and up beyond the hill.

Then I remember it can't be yours....

Your golden voice is still.

But I'll take that vacant spot of floor and empty muted hall

And lay them with the absent voice and unused dish along the wall.

I'll wrap these treasured memorials in a blanket of my love

And keep them for my best friend until we meet above.

Bye, Toby.