DEAR DOG

Dear dog of unknown breed
How familiar is your greed
I wonder easing your summer thirst
When did you feel hungry first

And when you did what did you eat
Surely not any milk or meat
No place for luxury on the street
Here dog eats dog & catcalls greet

Little thing, I pray show me your scars
Or mud stains from speeding cars
Or pelting wounds from angry kids
Who hurt you as their fathers did

Show me love that's free of danger
That which you've offered strangers
Your wagging tail with no demands
Beside a soft petting of hands

You've taken what you have found
No losses could shake your ground
God's own pet in a godforsaken time
A protagonist in my blessed rhymes

If we meet beyond this world again
Promise me you'll teach me then
The art of love and letting go
And only this and nothing more

-K.G.