Comment on the Lyrics Post

The last post was the lyrics from the Cat Stevens song, "How Can I Tell You". I'm listening to it as I write this. I can glance over to my left and see Cassie in her cat-sized bed, in my office. She's been in my office a thousand times a thousand more. She's comforted me for years and years while I've sat here. I've looked for a job and gotten rejections. I've written page after page of my thesis. I've listened to music and thought about my father's death. I've laid on the floor in this room and comforted our other dog Ally as she was near death. We've lived in this house for 12 years and Cassie has been in this room with me for almost all of it, comforting me. So, how can I now, as she comes closer and closer to a death, a death which will at best be from old age and at worst from a tumor squeezing her brain; how can I tell her that I love her. How can I say it or do it in a way that she understands, really UNDERSTANDS, just how much I love her for herself and for everything she's done for me. I'm crying on and off as I write this. And she's here, but not noticing... Years ago a song came on that reminded me of my father's death. And all I did was to rest my head against the back of my chair, sad, but no more. And Cassie noticed from the next room over and came to me to reassure me. I wish she could reassure me now. Yes, that she won't die. Or if not that, that she won't die or live in a painful way. But, most of all, that she understands that I love her. How do I tell her that I love her? How do we tell anyone that we love them, through thick and thin, for everything they are and everything they do to complement your life?