To Sonu .. With Love

I don't have anything to say this time - just that 5 years ago , 17th April 2003 I lost my best buddy SONU and I just wanted to dedicate this poem to him .

Sunlight streams through the windowpane,

unto a spot on the floor,

then I remember - it's where you used to lie,

but now you are no more.

I remember how you’d run to me

to play your favorite game,

And how your ears would perk right up

on hearing me call your name.

You’d wake me up each morning,
By licking on my face
You’d run around me in circles;
In your fast pace.

You’d jump on me as soon as I come
We’d roll together on the lawn
If anyone tried to separate us

You'd let out a loud moan.

You always knew;
If I were having a bad day

so you'd snuggle up close to me;
And try to get me to play.

If that didn't work;
You’d put your head in my lap

then make yourself comfortable;
And take a sound nap.

You’d always lend a thoughtful ear,

A problem you’d never miss.
I miss the way, on my cheek
You’d lay a little doggy kiss.

Old habits still make me think ,

I hear a barking at the door.

Or step back when I drop ,

a tasty morsel on the floor.

My feet still go around the staircase

where the food dish used to be,
I still sit on the terrace all alone,
Thinking you are still listening to me.

It still pains me that I was not with you
On your last day
I wish I had one last chance to do something
That would have made you stay.

I wish somehow to tell you,

how empty I now feel.

A part of me went with you,

a part that time can't heal.

Although time may bring new friends

and a new food dish to fill,

that one place in my heart belongs to you

and always will.

-Megha .