Puppy in the grass
Small sad corpse, eyes gone gray
I passed you only yesterday
Through tattered walls you called to me
There’s no one in your home to tell
They left you like an empty shell
At least your spirit now is free
Perhaps tonight the moon will bend
Her lucent tresses downward trend
Her silver arms will reach to you
I think that once you knew a ball
And from fair Luna’s hands will fall
A golden orb; her hands will strew.
I wish that I had known you when
Before you bore the pain of men
When canine soul was wild and pure
We know that there was one for you
Whose love would run both deep and true
Instead your owners, who I abhor
Should suffer all their ills time ten
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