Prayer of A Stray

Dear God please send me somebody who'll care!
I'm tried of running, I'm sick with despair.

My body is aching, it's so racked with pain,
and I pray as I run in the rain.

That someone will love me and give me a home.
A warm cozy bed and a big juicy bone.

My last owner tied me all day in the yard
Sometimes with no water and that was hard!

So I chewed my leash and I ran away
To rummage in garbage and live as a stray.

But now I am tired and hungry and cold.
And I'm so afraid that I'll never grow old.

They've chased me with sticks and hit me with stones
While I run the streets just looking for bones!

I'm not really bad, please help if you can,
For I have become just a "victim of man!"

I'm wormy and I'm ridden with fleas and
All that I want is an owner to please!

If you find one for me, I'll try to be good
And I won't chew their shoes, but I'll do as I should.

I'll love them, protect them and try to obey
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.

Each night as I sleep in the bushes I cry,
Cause I'm so afraid, that I'm going to die!

And I've got so much love and devotion to give,
That I should be given a new chance to live.

So dear God please, please answer my prayer and
Send me someone, who will really care . . . .


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I guess I'm gonna have to stop reading past the first sentence.
Maybe I can stop at that point.
I'm gonna wear out my eye glasses wipin the salt water off.
Mule