What do you say to the one you love, as they hold your hand
When both of you know, that they are slipping away?
What do you tell them? That "everything will be OK?"
Or that you will help them in any way that you can?

When the doctors have already made the arrangements
For the end, of which they hold no doubt at all.
How can you sit by and see them suffer in their own eyes?
What price should they pay for those extra four weeks?

It is with love that you wish to ease their passage from this world.
It is with their consent that you wish to end their pain.
You suffer alongside a body whose person is fading away.
Hoping to cherish their memory forever, not this last moment.

But we wait, because waiting is the right thing to do.
To take a life is always wrong, no ifs and buts, it's wrong.
And yet, and yet, we reserve a better end for our pets.
We put them to sleep, as they cannot understand the pain.