i'm a girl who's been blessed with a beautiful family
i'm a girl who's been doubly blessed with beautiful friends
i'm inherently me, flaws and all
but to the people who have come into my life at one point or another
who have given so much of themselves
there is no one more precious to me
nicole : "victory of the people"
Monday, April 17, 2006
my husky called nanuk
nanuk died today. it was swift and sudden, but relatively painless, for him. at the end, his face was still a beautiful black and white, the charcoal markings (like cleopatra's eyeliner) around his blue eyes. he listened when everyone else wanted to talk. he ran when i just wanted to walk.
i'll miss your soft furry ears, the birthmark on your snout, i'll miss your little attention-seeking whine, and your deep rumbling growls. you snapped at everyone else, but you never bit me. we had an understanding, i'd like to think, when you smiled with your knowing wink.
though you limped through most of your last months, and your fur came off in clumps, you were still the handsome husky and i shall never look at another without thinking of you.
i love you and i miss you, my thinking, winking 'nuk.
we are one-winged angels
learning to fly
with balance of moments
in bright blue sky
will our wings eventual
sprout out to flee
when minds are unabashed
spread wide and free
why hearts abound spin
and stars do burn
whether sand doth slip
to fathoms churn
which is heaven on earth
gives soul to birth
where lays upon the hearth
our loud jarring mirth
