The Years of Bear
They came to get Bear today
and what do you say
about a "Hero"
that is your son
and may have died
because you took him for a walk
in Hell

The Fire Engine came
and they placed his remains
lovingly, inside
Fire Engines and Firemen
will never mean the same thing
they did before
that warm september day

and what conversation

do you have with yourself
about the guilt you feel
about that one more year
He might have lived
if you and he had not done your duty

How fitting for a Hero of the
World Trade Center
To be cremated

Should you have worried more
about you and yours
instead of them and their's

If the truth be known
maybe
but you and he never would have thought of
yourselves first
it was not in his nature
or yours

Remember how he would protect
a little dog against
a big one?

Or let a girl dog bite him
or never start a fight
or how he never lost one

except the one
no one can ever win
and even then
how he fought against
the darkness

my friend Arthur Freed said it best
"Chief Peter Ganci and Father Judge
must have told God
that the thonds
who perished that September day
could use a great dog
to comfort them...
and I shall never stroke a Golden coat
again
without thinking of Bear

Thank you, and Honey
for giving us all
The Years of Bear"

Scott and Bear
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Scott and Bear
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Scott and Bear at the WTC
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