A Very Sad Follow-Up To My Last Poem,
‘Little Lost Soul’
“I saw ‘Rags’ on the News,
And I just have to have him!
Please put him on an airplane,
And send him to me – right away!”
A Woman in Texas
Music: Total Eclipse of The Heart
We are so sadly such a blind nation today
Most people cannot see what is happening
There are thousands of dogs, just like ‘Rags’
All across America, in every single community
But very few want to help save these street orphans
Or, the millions of dogs on Death Row, in the pounds
Unless a dog like Rags is featured on the national news
Very few people stepping forward to help, can be found
While news helicopters and reporters in vans chased Rags
Two of my fellow pet rescuers, were only a few miles away
They were trying to rescue another starving, abandoned dog
But no one seemed to care, or tried to assist them, in any way
The helicopters and news reporters even followed me to the vet
And despite all of my efforts to address other dogs just like Rags
The only starving, abandoned dog in America anyone cared about
Was little Rags, and this abysmal fact truly makes we rescuers sad
We have received over 100 calls and e-mails from people, about Rags
They all want to adopt him, and most of them got upset, when told ‘No’
We’ve told people in Texas, Florida, New York, Boston, and Kansas City
They should adopt a canine near them; to their local shelters they should go
When we pet advocates rescue so many other abandoned dogs today
It so very sadly takes us six months or more, to find them a new home
People need to start thinking about the homeless dogs in their own areas
Right in their very own neighborhoods, dogs just like little Rags, now roam
While thousands of other canines are starving on the streets of America today
Or, are languishing in the kill shelters and pounds, where they will be euthanized
We as a nation sadly only seem to see the needy dogs flashed across TV screens
Please Wake Up America; Help A Dog In Your Hometown; Open Your Eyes
“Turn around, every now and then,
I get so lonely, and you’re never coming around;
Turn around, every now and then,
I get so very terrified, just look into my eyes;
And I need you now, tonight,
And I need you now, more than ever.”
©July 9, 2012, Mr. Ed
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