A little Pug's prayer

I’m so longing for someone to call my own,

Dear God, please give me a forever home.

I want to give nose licks to children and play,

Please tell me, Dear God, can today be the day?

I’m alone in this cage, so hungry and scared

Dear God, if I could just have someone who cared

Enough to take me away from this place

I’ll lavish Puggie kisses all over her face.

I know if she saw me so broken and sad

She’d cry and hold me and I’d be so glad

To be loved and bathed, given good food to eat

And maybe an occasional special treat.

I pray for a gentle hand on my head,

Kind words and please, Lord, a soft warm bed.

My eyes are infected and my skin is so sore.

But my tail still curls and I can do the Puggie snore.

Surely my new Mommy would see through the hurt and pain

That I’m still beautiful on the inside and

That my wait for her has not been in vain.

I still have my big heart so loyal and true.

With so much love to give to one or a few.

My babies are gone now, they took them all away.

Lord, is there some reason why I still have to stay

In this prison where I’m lonely, in pain and so cold?

Can I please know love, just once before I’m old?

Dear God, if you can hear me from so far up above,

Please send me my forever family to love.

 

(Sandie Levine in Honor of Suki and in memory of Little Dude)