‘be brave’
Someone said ‘be brave’,
and not just in battle,
when taking away life.
Someone said ‘be brave’
when you stumble and fall,
get up now, and again.
I fell when my canine friend
Kaia took her leave 13 years,
7 months and 21 days later.
Can’t say how brave I am,
still feeling sorrow and loss
272 days after she took off.
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