May I Go
Do you think the time is right?
May I say goodbye to pain filled days and endless lonely nights?
I've lived my life and done my best, an example tried to be.
So can I take that step beyond, and set my spirit free?
I didn't want to go at first, I fought with all my might.
But something seems to draw me now to a warm and living light.
I want to go, I really do; it's difficult to stay.
But I will try as best I can to live just one more day.
To give you time to care for me and share your love and fears.
I know you're sad and afraid, because I see your tears.
I'll not be far, I promise that, and hope you'll always know,
That my spirit will be close to you wherever you may go.
Thank you so for loving me. You know I love you too,
And that's why it's hard to say goodbye and end this life with you.
So hold me now just one more time and let me hear you say,
Because you care so much for me, you'll let me go today
Please, God, if You should hear a scratch on Eden's Gate tonight,
A gentle whine, a muffled bark; have Peter take a light
And open up the Pearly Gates and call her Spirit in,
For I think she lived in Heaven once; please take her back again.
She may have been a mongrell, without a pedigree,
Yet she was noble, kind and good; I think You will agree:
That she'll be very useful where the souls of children play.
She'll romp with them, and see; Dear God; they do not go astray.
Just tell her that we're sorry that we could not pat her head,
And whisper how we loved here 'ere her Spirit fled.
I pray that when death beckons, and my soul surmounts life's fog,
I'll rate a place in Heaven, Dear God, beside our precious dog...
Don't close the door
Don't push me away
Why are you leaving?
Don't make me stay.
Slow down the car
I can't keep up
This pavement is hot
and my pads are cut.
I've got to quit running
or my heart will pop
Every muscle is aching
why didn't you stop?
I'm so hungry and thirsty
Darkness is near
But I shouldn't leave
He will come for me here
Several weeks have passed
I'm dead on my feet
They call me a nuisance
because I eat off the streets
Every car that passes
I chase it to see
If it is my master
coming for me
Though I approach
those that come near
With trust in my eyes
and no sign of fear
With hate in their voices
and a cold, heartless stare
They threaten to kill me
They don't even care
Batter my body
with rocks that they throw
I will not leave
He will come, Don't you know.
Overtaken with weakness
my body is numb
I'm sick and so lonely
Oh please, let him come!
I will go back
to where he first threw me out
I'll wait for him there
He will come, no doubt
My thoughts are fading
My chest feels like lead
I'm sleepy, so sleepy
I can't lift my head
It's so quiet, so peaceful
all remains still
There is my master
at my home on the hill
Yes, I can see him
He's calling my name
His voice is so gentle
His hands are the same
He decided he wants me
Things will be fine
I really do love him
that master of mine.
My tail wags with pleasure
I can't catch my breath
He came in my dreams
but so did my Death
Creation
When God had made the earth and sky,
When all were named upon the Earth
I was close to you at breakfast, I watched you pour the tea,
I was with you at my grave today, You tend it with such care.
You looked so very tired, and sank into a chair.
You sat there very quietly, then smiled, I think you knew,
The day is over... I smile and watch you yawning and say "good-night, God bless, I'll see you in the morning."
I have so many things to show you, there is so much for you to see.
Dear God,Oh please send me somebody who'll care!
That someone will love me and give me a home,
So I chewed my leash, and God, I ran away.
They've chased me with sticks and hit me with stones,
I'm wormy dear God and I'm ridden with fleas,
I'll love them, protect them and try to obey....
Each night as I sleep in the bushes I cry,
So dear God,will you please answer my prayer,
Now that I'm home, bathed, settled and fed
Hmmm. Yes there it is, right on the top-
I still have to unpack my baggage called Pain.
Will you add to my baggage?
Do you have the time to help me unpack?
the flowers and the trees,
the fish, the birds, and bees
And when at last He'd finished
not one was quite the same.
He said "I'll walk this world of mine
and give each one a name."
And so He traveled far and wide
and everywhere He went,
A little creature followed Him
until its strength was spent.
and in the Sky and Sea,
The little creature said, "Dear Lord,
there's no name left for me."
Kindly the Father said to him
"I've left you to the end.
I've turned my own name back to front
and called you DOG, my friend".
by your bed last night, I came to have a peep. I could see that you were crying, You found it hard to sleep.
I whined to you softly as you brushed away a tear,
"It's me, I haven't left you, I'm well, I'm fine, I'm here."
You were thinking of the many times, your hands reached down to me.
I was with you at the shops today, Your arms were getting sore.
I longed to take your parcels, I wish I could do more.
I want to reassure you, that I'm not lying there.
I walked with you towards the house, as you fumbled for your key.
I gently put my paw on you, I smiled and said "it's me."
I tried so hard to let you know, that I was standing there.
It's possible for me to be so near you everyday.
To say to you with certainty, "I never went away."
in the stillness of that evening, I was very close to you.
And when the time is right for you to cross the brief divide,
I'll rush across to greet you and we'll stand, side by side.
Be patient, live your journey out ... then come home to be with me
I'm tired of running, I'm sick with despair.
My body is aching, it's so racked with pain,
dear God this I pray, as I run in the rain.
with a warm cozy bed and a big juicy bone.
My last owner tied me all day in the yard
Sometimes with no water, and God that was hard.
To rummage in garbage and live as a stray.
But now God, I'm tired and hungry and cold,
and I'm so afraid that I'll never grow old.
while I run the streets just looking for bones!
I'm not really bad, God, please help if you can,
or I have become just a "Victim of Man!"
and all that I want is an Owner to please!
If you find one for me God, I'll try to be good,
and I won't chew their shoes, and I'll do as I should.
when they tell me to sit, to lie down or to stay!
I don't think I'll make it too long on my own,
cause I'm getting so weak and I'm so all alone.
cause I'm so afraid God, that I'm gonna die.
And I've got so much love and devotion to give,
that I should be given a new chance to Live!
and send me someone who really will care..
That is, dear God, if you really are there!..
Baggage
by Evelyn Colbath
All nicely tucked in my warm new bed,
I'd like to open my baggage lest I forget,
There is so much to carry, so much to regret.
Let's unpack Loneliness, Heartache, and Loss
And there by my leash hides Fear and Shame.
As I look on these I tried so hard to leave,
I loved them, the others, the ones who left me,
But I wasn't good enough - for they don't want me.
Will you help me unpack?
Or will you just look at my things and take me right back?
To put away my baggage, to never re-pack?
I pray that you do - I'm so tired you see,
But I do come with baggage.
Will you still want me?