Do You beg on The Doorstep

Do you beg on the doorstep when you're hungry as sin?
Can a puppy just hope there's a way to get in?

I'm lost-and no home-and it's raining today-
Oh, why should a puppy get treated this way?

I guess I'm a mongrel with no fancy tag-
Should I bark or look mournful or let my tail  wag?

Shhhh!  Someone is coming-it looks like a boy!
Does HE need a puppy?-I'd be such a joy!

I'm so hungry!-He knows it...He's gone for some chow...
Will his mom let him feed me?-I'll pray harder now...

He feeds me! He pets me!-Could I stay just a while?
Could I play just an hour?-He's starting to smile...

There's his mom!-She sees me!  He grabs me up tight!
Then she smiles...and pets me...maybe,  just for tonight...

Now, what shall he call me?  Oh, who will I be?
A home and a name...what a great day for me!

Tomorrow?-Who knows what my Fate will contrive...?
But tonight...I'm the happiest puppy...alive...

Little Puppy, sitting there
In the field mid daisies fair
wary eyed you look at me.
Are you lost?  Or could it be
someone put you in this place
all alone this to face.
Soon the sun will fade from sight
and the day will turn to night.
You have no drink or food to eat.
Come---I will take you home with me.
Little things need loving care.
Perhaps that is why
God put me here.

Donna Lou McPherren

His Journey's Just Begun

Don't think of him as gone away---
his journey's just begun;
life holds so many facets---
this earth is only one.

Just think of him as resting
from the sorrows and the tears
in a place of warmth and comfort
where there are no days and years.

Think how he must be wishing
that we could know, today,
how nothing but our sadness
can really pass away.

And think of him as living
in the hearts of those he touched....
for nothing loved is ever lost--
and he was loved so very much.
 
 

 Ellen Brenneman