If I Find a Rainbow Bridge One Day

If I find a rainbow bridge one day
I hope that you'll be there
Maybe you won't be waiting
Maybe your heart is bare

Maybe you feel unwanted
That you were not in our hearts
Since you were never adopted
At the end or near the start

You seemed to be improving
You'd even regained weight
We didn't know that there was more
We found out far too late

You came along too late for us
You were too old, too ill
The choice was taken 'way from us
Sweet one, a bitter pill

If you find a rainbow bridge today
Join the others we'll look for
I swear to you that in our minds
We loved you as much or more

We were able to adopt our foster kitty at the last minute.  No one should go to their death unwanted

About Me

Kevin Wade Johnson began writing fiction in the 1970s, and began getting serious about it in the following decade, as the embedded image shows.

Fiction had to take a back seat to the more technical writing required in a thirty-year career within the Defense Department, active-duty and civilian.  In the course of a career learning foreign languages, cultures, history, and more, he focused more and more on teaching effective communication, and capped off his tenure by writing The Neglected Giant: Agnes Meyer Driscoll (link current as of November 2024), the free, award-winning, published biography of a pioneering codebreaker.  Before retiring he had a short story published in a regional anthology; not long after, and then since retiring, he has self-published numerous novels, novellas and collections, all of which are free ebooks.  For ten years he posted thought pieces, free fiction and more at kevinwadejohnson.blogspot.com; most of these articles have been moved to ebooks.

Those ebooks and the others are at http://self.gutenberg.org/Authors/KevinWadeJohnson.

I do plan to flesh this out some more in the future.