Furry- My Best Beloved, 21 months today that she lost her battle Options

[Furrys Mum]

Dear Furry,
After 21 months I still miss you so much, you are the first thought I have when I wake & the last when I go to sleep. It's harder as the sun comes out, as you loved so much to sit in the garden with me, now I sit by your grave.

She Is Gone

You can shed tears that she is gone
Or you can smile because she lived

You can close your eyes & pray that she will come back
Or you can open your eyes & see all that she has left

Your heart can be empty because you can't see her
Or full of the love that you shared

You can turn your back on tomorrow & live yesterday
Or you can be happy for tomorrow because of yesterday

You can remember her & only that she is gone
Or you can cherish her memory & let it live on

You can cry & close your mind, be empty & turn your back
Or you can do what she would want: smile, open your eyes, love & go on.

Dearest Furry, I am trying, but it's still so hard without you.
Sweet dreams, my best beloved.
Judith

[Furrys Mum]

Thank you Goliath, & Love Them for your support .
The poem was read at a funeral I attended last week, & also at the Queen Mothers Funeral. I don't find it easy to be positive, but when I'm really missing Furry I get some comfort from it. I have to remember that she wasn't "our " cat - that she chose to come & live with us, it could so easily not have happened at all. I am so grateful that she chose me for her special bond of love, but I just can't get over having only 12 years together, it wasn't long enough. I had always wanted us to be old ladies together!
Judith