I’ve been playing with poetry lately and today’s prompt was ‘your happy place’. To be honest, I struggled with it all day. Writing about an emotion is hard when you aren’t particularly feeling it.
But then I came home from work. And I found my ‘happy place’.
Enjoy 😉
Pawfect Happiness
My insides are exploding
If I sit quietly, she will come to me
Her hand on my head
The gentle scritches
I close my eyes and take a deep breath
She smells like home
My eyes meet hers
She shows me her teeth
She tells me hello
Asks me how my day was
I push my head into her leg
She leans down and gives me gentle kisses
First on my head and then on my nose.
As she pulls back, her fingers lightly twirl my ear
I follow her and she lets me out into the yard
I turn back to see if she will follow
She tells me to go
She gets my favorite tug toy
My tail is moving uncontrollably
Lick my lips and pull back my jowels.
Tongue falls out of my mouth
Brown Eyes widen
This is it
She’s going to play with me!
“ready!’’ she says, And I leap at the toy she holds
She laughs as I growl and bite the toy
Her laugh means she’s letting go of pent up tension and aggression
So does my growl
She pushes and pulls
I lose my grip and she runs giggling with the toy!
I got it! She says
I run as fast as I can
We dance and joust and watch each other’s every move
I get the tug and we push and pull and she loses her grip
She runs to me and I slip behind her and chase her
Come back! Get it mom! Get it!
She turns laughing and grabs the handle as she playfully growls and pats my body with one hand
We play until we can’t breathe
There is nothing and nobody else in that moment
Just two friends
Unconditionally
Happy
Later I’ll climb in her lap
Rest my head in a place that seems made for me
She will wonder what I’m dreaming of when I bark and run in my sleep
If I could speak
I’d tell her my dream was us
My dream is our happy place
And I’d ask if we can visit tomorrow
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