Meg and Mark-Max and Lady

Meg and Mark were married today
to live in their cottage on the bay
where they would play with their dogs,
brother and sister, Max and Lady
who loved to swim in the sea
trying to bite the waves
that chased them to the shore.

Then on a later day-
Mark was called to war
to fight for liberty in his land,
while Meg was left with only
Max and Lady for company
to run and play in the dunes
with gulls that squawked all day.

Time passed to another year
and by now there was fear
that Mark had disappeared-
The dogs stopped going to the beach
to lay on the porch and pine away
until Lady cried her eyes away
to be blind and see nothing there.

Meg sent for the vet, to help her pet
but no-he suggested putting her down
and that is when Max picked up a stick
to give to Lady to hang on to him
to run away down to the beach
where he would guide her with his stick
until the day his master returned.

A shooting star passed overhead
but stopped to tell Max and Lady-
Mark is waiting in heaven
for the day when Meg, Max and Lady
will come out to run and play
on a beach of gold with Angel birds
that love to fly and cry for us.