One moment there was certainty
\nThen it was swept away
\nThey left me at a petrol station
\nVery far away
\nSuddenly alone was I
\nNothing to call my own
\nIn Ducar California
\nLost and quite alone<\/p>\n
Stuck here in the open
\nLots of fields around
\nAn orchard pretty near a road
\nBut as to where I am bound
\nIts clear I have been abandoned
\nMy dilemma had begun
\nI did feel unstable
\nThe unexpected one<\/p>\n
Unsure and uneasy
\nWhat was I going to do
\nHow now could I get through today
\nAbove my head was blue
\nThe earth around was crimson
\nThe landscape seemingly
\nBrown and green and tree lined
\nThere seemed no guarantee<\/p>\n
Whether I could manage
\nMy rationality
\nThe fact I had been dumped out here
\nThe changeability likely
\nTo be dubious every day
\nFood to eat water to drink
\nAnd shelter too and a way<\/p>\n
A lot of lateral thinking
\nReact instinctively
\nInvent explore and encounter
\nLearn to just be free
\nBeg for food find water
\nAnd shelter for the night
\nThere were a pair of mattresses
\nSo it just felt alright<\/p>\n
After years of being
\nIn a nice warm place
\nGood food always in my bowl
\nAnd a big garden to chase
\nThe odd mouse that might venture
\nAnd the pigeons too
\nNow alone in the countryside
\nWhere I didn\u2019t have a clue<\/p>\n
Holes and corners covers
\nA cache and hideaway
\nI just felt so let down
\nMy life so very much dismay
\nI begged for food i scratched around
\nI caught a mouse or two
\nWhen you are bloody starving
\nThere are things you can do<\/p>\n
There were some solar panels
\nDiscarded close to me
\nSo I could get under down under them
\nAnd lay there comfortably
\nThe garage was just up a bit
\nSo I did beg from there
\nNot everybody gave me stuff
\nBut the owners were aware<\/p>\n
That I had been abandoned
\nAnd when they remembered they
\nBrought my food not all the time
\nBut sometimes they did lay
\nBiscuits and some bits of meat
\nDown and that was good
\nThe rest of the time I caught insects
\nAnd ate berries in the wood<\/p>\n
I became more persistent
\nThere were apples on the trees
\nAnything is better than an empty gut
\nSome peas and wild carrots
\nGradually I found
\nEnough to keep me from starving
\nNuts too on the ground<\/p>\n
It was a shell station
\nThe people there they cared
\nIts just that they were busy
\nAnd other clients shared
\nFood with me and left some of it
\nOn my side of the road
\nSo I was fed and watered
\nBut never had a load<\/p>\n
Then one day a car stopped
\nAnd a I saw a man who came to see
\nThe apples they were still quite small
\nAnd he did see me
\nHe came over and said something
\nAnd left a can of meat
\nIt was mighty tasty
\nI was licking it off my feet<\/p>\n
For several hours
\nThe tastiest I had had a for a long while
\nAnd he started coming more
\nAnd he left a pile
\nOf this and that
\nHe always came a d spoke with me
\nBut I was really frightened
\nSo I kept my distance
\nAnd thats no lie<\/p>\n
But the food he brought was lovely
\nEven better than before
\nWhen I lived in a house
\nWith a big green door
\nThats before They abandoned me
\nSo this man seemingly
\nWas coming over often
\nAnd hoped to see me<\/p>\n
Well that got my confidence
\nUp a bit
\nI felt better in a way
\nMore food in my tummy
\nAnd almost every day
\nSeeing him and thinking
\nLife was getting better
\nEven if the mornings
\nWere cold and it was wetter<\/p>\n
The apples began falling
\nSo i had some of them, they
\nWere crunchy and were very sweet
\nAnd my freedom felt okay
\nI kept my spirit going
\nA better disposition
\nWith my friend coming often
\nHe made me his mission<\/p>\n
And he began to stay much longer
\nHe would chat to me a lot
\nCome and sit down on the grass
\nHe had a favourite spot
\nIn the sun some way away
\nFrom the highway and we\u2019d
\nEat together and he shared stuff
\nMore than I did need<\/p>\n
He was staying about an hour with me
\nAnd coming every day
\nHe brought me fresh water
\nHe was kind to me and he\u2019d play
\nSometimes with a ball and sometimes
\nI would walk a while
\nAnd run off and come back again
\nWe would walk perhaps a mile<\/p>\n
I was feeling effervescent
\nAnd enlivened by him, he
\nWould come and sit upon the ground
\nAnd talk incessantly
\nI was happy that he came along
\nAnd we became friends he
\nClearly was untroubled
\nFinding serenity<\/p>\n
I was feeling happier
\nWith each passing day
\nI would run about and dash across bis path
\nAnd really play
\nAnd then one day he laid down
\nAnd I sat by his side
\nHe was soft and thoughtful
\nAnd he seemed to want to hide<\/p>\n
His feelings but he would play with me
\nWith a leash he brought and we
\nGot closer and closer
\nIt felt wonderful to be
\nNear him smelling his clean clothes
\nAnd face for surely he
\nWas my enigmatic stranger
\nWhose name was Danny<\/p>\n
For three months he had visited
\nMy shyness overcome
\nKt felt that we were compatible
\nReally unlike some
\nThe lady in the service station
\nShe was none too hot
\nI got under her heels a bit
\nAnd happy she was not<\/p>\n
Then one day Danny brought this cage
\nSomewhere I could sleep
\nIt didn\u2019t keep the sun off
\nIt was more a prison keep
\nWas he being hostile
\nOr kind I guess that he
\nWanted me to be safer
\nHe installed it by a tree<\/p>\n
He put food and water there
\nAnd some treats as well
\nAnd one brought some friends along
\nSAVING STRAYS a spell
\nOf really extra goodness
\nAnd I was off inside his car
\nGoing to the hospital
\nWhich was very far<\/p>\n
A good shampoo
\nMy hair cut back
\nNails clipped i felt fine
\nA rub down and a place to call my own
\nClearly a sign
\nThat he was going to be my friend
\nForever we would be
\nIn his home away from the bad road
\nIt seemed to me<\/p>\n
And everyday we walked somewhere
\nThe river or the park
\nHe had made a kite which he liked to fly
\nAnd sometimes until dark
\nWe ran around absorbing
\nThe energies of the day
\nAnd went home to a nice meal
\nAnd a chat along the way<\/p>\n
I am now with Danny
\nAnd his friends come around to see
\nI am so glad that he found me
\nFor I am filled with glee
\nUtopia for dogs thats Danny
\nAnd his place
\nA really happy place to live
\nA d now to call my base<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
One moment there was certainty Then it was swept away They left me at a petrol station Very far away Suddenly alone was I Nothing to call my own In Ducar California Lost and quite alone Stuck here in the … Continue reading