"Today We Lost Our Beloved Pets" copyright 2012, upcoming poetry book, "Passion Amidst Apathy"

 

 

Our Beloved “Mickey” the oldest of our two pets.

Today we lost our Beloved Pets.

Mickey was the oldest of our two blue and gold parrots.

He was seventy-one in human years.

We had Mickey for over twenty-four years.

 

Minnie was fifty in human years.

We had her for over seventeen years.

We loved these two bird dearly.

They were our beloved family.

They were irreplaceable in our hearts.

 

The accident was tragic.

They were on their bird stands in our great room.

It was our lake home on Cedar Creek Lake in Texas.

 

We had the new electric stove for a short while.

The night before my wife fixed a pecan pie for friends.

It was a New Years party and the home of our friends.

The pie boiled and overflowed in the oven.

 

This morning with the birds in room

my wife turned on the “self-clean” feature.

The “self-clean” feature had never been engaged before.

Within an hour the birds acted strangely

like they could not breath.

 

We rushed them both to the front

porch while they were grasping for breath.

They both died with minutes of each other.

We love Mickey and Minnie with all our hearts.

Our lives will never be the same without them. 

 

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