A Stray's Prayer

This poem/prayer was sent to the Ark of Hope Rescue.                                                                                        Please help us, help God's little critters from living the kind of life this poor animal had lived...

 Dear God, Please send me somebody who'll care!                                                                                                       I'm tired of running, I'm Sick with Despair!

My body is Aching, It's so Racked with Pain,                                                                                                                  And Dear God I pray as I run in the rain

That someone will love me and give me a home                                                                                                              A warm cozy bed and a big juicy bone.

My last owner tied me all day in the yard                                                                                                                   Sometimes with no water and God was that hard!

So I chewed my leash and I ran away                                                                                                                                 To rummage in garbage and live as a stray.

But now God I tired and hungry and cold.                                                                                                                           And I'm so afraid that I'll never grow old.

They've chased me with sticks and hit me with stones                                                                                               While I run the streets just looking for bones!

I'm not really bad God, Please help if you can,                                                                                                               For I have become just a "Victim of Man!"

I'm wormy Dear God and I'm ridden with fleas and                                                                                                          All that I want is an owner to please!

If you find one for me God, I'll try to be good                                                                                                                         And I won't chew their shoes, but I'll do as I should.

I'll LOVE them, PROTECT them, and try to OBEY                                                                                                       When they tell me to sit, to lie down or to stay!

I don't think I'll make it to long on my own,                                                                                                                           Cause I'm getting so weak and I'm so all alone.

Each night as I sleep in the bushes I cry,                                                                                                                            Cause I'm so afraid God, that I'm gonna die!

And I've got so much LOVE and DEVOTION to give,                                                                                                      That I should be given a new chance to live,

So Dear God please, Please answer my prayer and                                                                                                         Send me somebody who REALLY WILL CARE...