Stray's Prayer
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.
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 that was hard
so I chewed my leash,
and God I ran away to rummage in garbage and live as a stray.
But now God, I'm 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,
and 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 too 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 answer my prayer,
and send me someone who will REALLY care ...
that is, dear God, if YOU'RE REALLY there!