Tragedy of the Euthanized

A Poem by jonnyboit

From my days as a vet assistant

"Tragedy of the Euthanized."

Death,
As inevitable as it may be,
Is it really worth the price of,
Eternity?

I don't have much to say,
but the horror that struck
the side of my face,
to learn of such a

Despairing moment,
depression in the air,
the garbage bag that sat,
to the left of my chair.

"To the freezer it goes",
the veterinarian had said,
"down the hallway,
just a left over there."

An empty carcass,
a lifeless thing,
of molecules and atoms,
how emotionless it had been.

A terrier it was not,
a retriever it may have been;
all I had felt,
were teardrops upon my skin.

"you can do this" I had said,
a lifeless thing it had been,
its head of golden colour,
now thumped against my skin

To the freezer I went,
opened it I had,
swung the body round side
and to the bottom it began.

Down through the ice,
happy memories and such,
an organism that once was,
an incredible mutt.

My emotions overwhelmed,
my thoughts perplexed
the idea of such an act,
remains eternally etched.

I will never forget the day,
That God took such a thing,
from an incredible family,
The soccer mom and her kin.

An "After-life", they say
a new beginning there might be
Well, all there's left to say is
for dogs there just has to be.