Carol Schulz

“I’m Still Here
Your heart has been heavy since that day—
The day you thought I went away—
I haven’t left you I never would—
You just can’t see me, though I wish that you could.
It might ease the pain that you feel in your heart—
The pain that you’ve felt since you’ve believed us to part.
Try and think of it this way, it might help you see—
That I am right here with you and always will be.

Remember the times we were out in the yard,
You could not always see me yet I hadn’t gone far.

That’s how it is now when you look for my face
I’m still right beside you still filling my place.

I find it to be so very sad,
That seeing and believing seem to go hand in hand,
The love and the loyalty the warmth that I gave,
You felt them, did not see them, but you believed just the same.

I walk with you now like I walked with you then—
My pain is now gone and I lead once again.

My eyes always following you wherever you roam—
Making sure you’re okay and you’re never alone.

Our time was too short yet for me it goes on—
I won’t ever leave you, I’ll never be gone.
I live in your heart as you live in mine—
An endearing love that continues to shine.

The day will come and together we’ll be,
And you’ll say take me home boy, and once again I will lead.

Until that day comes don’t think that I’ve gone—
I’m right here beside you, and my love it lives on.”
― Sylvia Browne, All Pets Go To Heaven: The Spiritual Lives of the Animals We Love