Chocolate Lab Staring

Standing upright, striking such a pathetic pose
I read the sadness in your eyes
Nose twitching, tasting
Freedom

Longing for those days of wide open
spaces, wild chases
running, splashing rolling
into a world you once knew
before this confinement
into
an existence of
being
punished for the penalty of
being
it’s all there
in your stare
from across this

Invisible
threshold of pain
on this heavy day the scent does
carry

From afar, the bugler sounds
your ears do not deceive
and yet you resist the urge
your drive and
liveliness seeps out
bleeding slowly to ground
let me carry you away
break through this barrier of pain
Crash out of this prison
Before the memory of wild chases
escapes you
forever more

Snassano10-13-07