by Tom Berman
Together we were pups
Six legs between us
I remember you
Spoilt brat
Rolling on the floor
Screaming in a tantrum
Chases in the garden
Wrestling on the lawn
Over the hill
To our multi scented stream
We grew together
You and I
Whispering sweet secrets
Smells mingling in brotherhood
You had other friends
But none so close as me
Five years long
One day you were gone
Your scent lingered longer
Then no more.
One day
Grey uniforms
took me
I escaped home
To a scent
gone cold
and again,
the grey uniforms