2009 Non-Golden Successes

ALONE AGAIN

I wish someone would tell me what it is that I’ve done wrong.
Why I have to stay chained up and left all alone so long.

They seemed so glad to have me when I came here as a pup.
So many things they said we’d do while I was growing up.

They couldn’t wait to train me as a companion and a friend.
And told me how I need not fear being left alone again.

The children said they’d feed me and brush me every day.
They’d play with me and walk me if I could only stay.

But now the family “Hasn’t Time”. They say I often shed.
They do not want me in the house, not even to be fed.

The children never walk me. They always say, “NOT NOW!”
I wish that I could please them. Won’t someone tell me how?

All I had, you see, was love to give. I wish they would explain
Why they said they wanted me then left me on a chain.