Luckynumber7, that poem is amazing. Thanks for sharing it.
I'm sorry you didn't get to bury Maximus as you had hoped but maybe in the spring you can sprinkle his ashes around a tree or bush and as it grows, think of him. I used to put the ashes of our RB pets around a willow tree and then when we put our house up for sale, I asked my husband to fill a bucket with all the soil around the base of the tree and then I sprinkled that around a big maple at our next home.