This is what you must know about the Rainbow Bridge

For many of us with dogs, we’ve already known the unbearable sense of loss when faced with the passing of a pup. For others who are sharing their love with their first dog, the sorrow is too painful to even contemplate. Perhaps it was the weight of grief that drove an anonymous poet to pen The Rainbow Bridge, a prose poem written in the 1980’s to help all of us manage the unmanageable. To see in words, what we know in our hearts.

The Beginning Of The Rainbow Bridge.

Just where the idea of the Rainbow Bridge comes from is not fully understood. Some believe the idea came from the Norse legend of Bifrost. Bifrost is described as the Rainbow Bridge that connects the world of the gods to the world of humanity. The Rainbow Bridge connects this world to the next. With a rich green meadow for a dog to roam content, healthy, and free.

The origins behind this piece of prose aren’t well known. Since the poem began spreading around pet circles in the 80’s, at least three men have taken credit for penning the prose poem. Paul Dahm, a grief counselor in Oregon, was said to have written it in 1981. William Britton wrote and published Legend of Rainbow Bridge in 1994. The last contender is Wallace Sife, head of the Association for Pet Loss and Bereavement, whose poem All Pets Go to Heaven is on the association’s website. Whoever the author may be, the person gave words to the place we long to know about, the place where our families are reunited.

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