In memory of Rauha, a pet rat who died today
Posted: Sat Nov 28, 2015 1:26 pm
Rauha died today. She is now with my gods, who will care for her and look after her until I join her once more. I didn't really know her long enough to say if she was a good rat, if she had a happy life, or pretty much anything - she fought constantly with the other two, and of the three was the least interested in any form of interaction. While the other two would come quickly when the cage was opened, Rauha would simply lie there and stare at the wall, or sit under a blanket, curled into a ball. While the other two played, she would sleep, or remain uninterested in another part of the cage. I hope that her brief time with me gave her some happiness, but I will never know, for now she has died and her time here is over. Farewell little one - until we meet again in darker places.
Death is before me today:
--like the recovery of a sick man,
--like going forth into a garden after sickness.
Death is before me today:
--like the odor of myrrh,
--like sitting under a sail in a good wind.
Death is before me today:
--like the course of a stream;
--like the return of a man from the war-galley to his house.
Death is before me today:
--like the home that a man longs to see,
--after years spent as a captive.
--From "Dialogue of a Misanthrope with His Soul" (ca 2000 BC)
Death is before me today:
--like the recovery of a sick man,
--like going forth into a garden after sickness.
Death is before me today:
--like the odor of myrrh,
--like sitting under a sail in a good wind.
Death is before me today:
--like the course of a stream;
--like the return of a man from the war-galley to his house.
Death is before me today:
--like the home that a man longs to see,
--after years spent as a captive.
--From "Dialogue of a Misanthrope with His Soul" (ca 2000 BC)
