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A poem for my old dog
To the green green grass we go
To the green green grass we go, my girl
to where mountains ride the sky and the sun kisses the sea
to rainbow clouds and vermillion fields of wildflower blooms
to where pain and sorrow are but a distant memory
to where youth is everlasting and we roll like we know no tomorrow
to rivers we’ll run and the endless fields of daisies we’ll slumber away the days
Till night embraces the dawn, I will stay with you
till the ocean meets the sea, we shall jump and dance
till the moon shines her shy light upon your graying head, I will hold you
Be not afraid that I would leave you solo on this road
Fear not, my sweet sweet girl, that I would abandon you now when the silver light is all we have
and the darkness grows its long shadow upon our tail
fear not that my love would shatter in the wake of ending
I will embrace you to the very end of time itself, hold you dear and hold you fierce
even as the hands of time reaches for you against my chest, I won’t let go so easily
I’ll hold on until I know you’ve gone far beyond me to the green green grass.
