A poem for Stevie - RIP beautiful boy

Baron Von Stevenheim

Long may you shine

Bark you did not

Nor did you whine

Though you did not care for dogs that you did not know

You had endless love that you knew how to show

Squeezing through people's ankles and gazing up

Is how you'd give hugs, such an affectionate pup

I'll never forget your liquid brown eyes

Or how you'd chew sticks down to ridiculous size

Always there by my side, with a gentle rest of your chin

On a knee, like you knew how tough the day might have been

Boundless energy, joy, a helicoptering tail

As we swam in the lake or jogged along trails

Your greatest pleasures in life were a beach and a ball

You'd retrieve anything, no matter how small

A twig, a leaf, a feather, some fluff

You'd stand there poised, one paw lifted up

Stevie our baby, big brother, our pup

We love you forever no time would be enough

Go gently our boy, loyal, generous, kind to the end

What an honour to have known you my freckle-nosed friend