The Day Before Your Last

T’was the day after Valentine’s twenty-fifteen, a Sunday I’ll never forget;

For it was the last full one you would spend on earth, your departure the morrow was set!

Had I known of what the future had held, it’s plans to take my beloved you;

I think I could not have survived the pain, and I’d have left on Monday night too!

I can still see your face on that so fateful day, your eyes looked straight into mine;

They said “Daddy, don’t worry, I’m not feeling so well, But I’ll be better with rest and some time”!

So you slept most the day, yet I still worried a lot, for food you could not digest;

But I knew the next morning the very first thing, your vet would bring you back to your best!

So I kissed you goodnight for the very last time, on that evening as the clock ticked away;

Never dreaming of what cruel fate had in store, that I’d lose you the very next day!

I think of it often, all the pain you endured, yet you never cried out or showed sign;

That this was to be your last full day to live, then the Lord said “Now Nico is mine”!