Those last few moments with Coco…

What you’d do…If you’d know

These are the last few breaths,

Your Child Shall take…

Yet I can tell…As A mother….That Thought Wouldn’t Even Cross Your Mind!

For you’d Bloom Flowers of Hope

Right From your Heart!

To Make Even those Tears Shine!

What you’d do

When upon his passing

The first thing you’re Asked-

“Was he Euthanised…..”

Ahhhhh….How Callously we speak

Unaware of words that come forth from

The Arrogance & Ignorance even in times such;

To Showcase-

“How Knowledgeable Ones Mind Is”

But would that thought cross,

For your very human child

For Pain is Universal; Be it for an Animal or Mankind!

I know Pets can’t speak, So most pet-parents heart-wrenchingly

Take that step, But Only In Dire-Need!

But Who can ever Fathom, What those Parent goes through…

To Uproot; The Only Reason,

That kept them going!

Yet! How could I Ever Give up upon Coco,

Even though for 12 days straight,

He couldn’t Help himself to Sit Nor Stand up, To eat Nor drink….

Or Even Turn sides on his bed,

Without Help from Atul & me!

Yet the Dignity & Grace he’d Shown

Right till his very end

By Accepting even those last 2morsels of food, So I, his mother,

Wouldn’t Mourn- O Hungry he left!

Yet All of that Amounted to Nothing, For all he’d done for me

As he gave his 13.5yrs of life!

Where Innumerable times;

He’s Literally Saved me!

So tell me, How could I ever Give Up

Upon A Soul as him;

Let Alone, “Even Entertain A Thought Of Euthanising!”

Maybe in times such…

“It’s Far Better to Remain Silent, Than Speak Vainly”

What you’d do….

If barely a couple months upon his passing

You’re Suggested, “Get Another Pet…”

For us humans are often taught

“Get up & Keep Moving”

As though Acknowledging Grief & learning from it is something bad!

Yet who could Replace your child’s place…

Can you buy souls like them?

& From Which Worlds Marketplace

Nay they are “Blessings God-sent!”,

& loosing them is A Void- Even God can’t Fill

Then who are we; To Even Replace Or Wipe out Souls,

“Who are Verily Gods-Gifts!”

What you’d do…

If you’d know….

These maybe your Child’s last breath,

Someday Tell me…Tell me that…

The last few minutes of Cocos life, he sat up on his own, by Gods Grace & looked One Pointedly straight into Atul’s eyes, then mine & kept doing till He lay his head upon my lap, Never to Awaken!

He said Goodbye, Silently through those eyes,

Etching that moment forever in Our hearts!

This was the last picture of Coco,

I took a day before his passing on April 12th / 2022

With Tears & Love I share

©️ Meghna/2022