Four Feet In Heaven

by Alice E. Chase

Your favorite chair is vacant now...
No eager purrs to greet me.
No softly padded paws to run
Ecstatically to meet me.

No coaxing rubs
Nor plaintive cry
Will say it's time for feeding.
I've put away your bowl, and all the things
You won't be needing;

But I will miss you little friend,
For I could never measure
the happiness you brought me,
The comfort and the pleasure.

And since God
put you here to share
In earthly joy and sorrow;

I'm sure there'll be
a place for you
In Heaven's
bright tomorrow!