The shock of my life

I was in the park
when suddenly my owner
grabbed his knife
got hold of me
and slammed me
I was frightened for my life
I felt that blade below my neck
and the pain it scared my soul
as he stripped away my outer fur
I hardly could control
the pain was an intensity
beyond anything I’d known
and then he went and left me
yes I am fully grown
why oh why did he do this
I can’t describe it, he
just took his knife and did it
he just did it to me
and there wasn’t any reason
one minute he was calm
the next a raving lunatic
giving me such harm
and how my skin was weeping
its was perilously sore
South West Detroit
in a green park
and the world seemed to ignore
why did he start to skin me
then stop I’d done no wrong
I’d quietly come down stairs
al’right
I knew I did belong
where he put me everyday
I never ventured out
my basket was my basket
his rules I did not flout
so there was no, rhyme or reason
for this gross cruelty
and I hope to god they find him
and punish him for me