Lost but not Forgotten

Inspired by Barry Manilow's "Mandy" (which my mom told me could have been about a dog) I wrote this about a beautiful Golden Retriever that I ended up losing to cancer.

She's just a normal girl.
Loving and friendly. 
She wants nothing more than to love.
Nothing more than to be loved.
So she pours everything into him.
But the feelings aren't reciprocated.
Everyone comes and goes in her life,
Not everyone as kind as she.
Some are even worse than the monsters of nightmares.
Each time they walk away she hopes the next will be better. 
But this time it ends up worse. 
Beaten and bruised,
She pulls back. 
She's learned to trust no one. 
She flinches from touch, fearing the worst. 
Her gentleness remains intact,
As that saves her a beating.
But still no one cared. 
She's taken away,
But she has no more hope to give.
Until she meets a little girl. 
A girl who is willing to care. 
A girl who understands the pain she went through.
A girl who wants to love and be loved.
So little by little, the beaten creature opens up her heart. 
She still flinches from time to time, but the other never speaks of it.
They enjoy their time together
The day she starts feeling a pain in her abdomen,
She stays quiet, not wanting to worry her friend, 
It's no worse than the pain she sustained earlier in life.
In time, she breathed her last,
The girl on her mind.
Loved because someone cared.
And the girl cried because she lost someone who had merely a glimpse of what love was. 
Someone who had been denied it all along. 
Someone who deserved it all of her life.
And to this day, the girl hasn't stopped loving the gentle soul.