Four-Feet

by Rudyard Kipling (1909) — a poem card from Justes Mots

The small, unbearable absence of the four feet that used to follow you everywhere.

I have done mostly what most men do,
And pushed it out of my mind;
But I can't forget, if I wanted to,
Four-Feet trotting behind.

Day after day, the whole day through—
Wherever my road inclined—
Four-Feet said, "I am coming with you!"…

Themes: pet-loss · grief