A Song in Memory Huckleberry - Under the Peach Tree

Описание: | For those experiencing the loss of a loved dog or pet |
Huckleberry passed in May of 2025. He was my best friend , he was the best part of me, and it still hurts.

Gone but never forgotten.
Under the Peach Tree.

Fifteen years of worn-out floors
Black dog shadow at my door
Worked beside me, slept at my feet
Every breath in time with me

They said he’d be too hard to keep
Said don’t get close, don’t dig that deep
But I saw a soul that needed a hand
He saved me the day I saved him back

They talk about the cost and strain
Never what a good dog gave
He taught me how to stay
He taught me how to stand

I held you when the world went quiet
Felt your last breath fade in mine
Under that old peach tree crying
Where your heart beat for the final time
If love could keep you breathing
You’d still be right here with me
So run free, my fierce old friend
I’ll find you again
Under the peach tree

Wrapped you in your favorite blanket
Carried you though you were gone
Dug the ground with shaking hands
Laid my whole damn heart in stone

Built a garden round your name
Hands in dirt to dull the pain
When it was done, I finally broke
Grief don’t knock, it just comes home

I’ve known loss, I’ve felt that flame
This one cut a deeper vein
You were my pack, my home, my ground
Now the house just hears your sound

I held you when the world went quiet
Felt your last breath fade in mine
Under that old peach tree crying
Where your heart beat for the final time
If love could keep you breathing
You’d still be right here with me
So run free, my fierce old friend
I’ll find you again
Under the peach tree

I don’t pray for this ache to leave
I let it stay, it reminds me
How lucky I was to love that deep
How rare that kind of loyalty

They say time heals everything
But I won’t let this fade away
If this pain is love remaining
I’ll gladly pay

I held you when the world went quiet
Felt your last breath fade in mine
Under that old peach tree crying
Where your heart beat for the final time
If love could keep you breathing
You’d still be right here with me
So run free, my fierce old friend
Wait for me
Under the peach tree

Run beneath the pale moonlight
Free of pain, free from time
My best friend, my best boy,
my guide.