Button, 2003 - 2012

Nature's Balm

There exists a mysterious
element of inheritance surely
as though creatures are
programmed in a strategy to
seamlessly repeat and replace
one another, bred to complement
the emotional needs of people
who see in their canine
companions the arcane spirit and
acquired habits of those that
preceded them. It is as though
grief for the one lost to age's
inevitable descent into death
moves Nature to provide
another, gifted with like
qualities and the precocious
sense of identifying clues
leading to the inspiration of
repeated mannerisms and
sensitivities of the original.
Their presence a consolation.