The One Left Behind
Oh dog, sweet dog
My companion and friend
I wish our journey
Did not have to end
But I always knew that
One would go first
For that one to be me
I feared as the worst
No, not to save me
From life’s certain demise,
But to depart this world
Looking in your brown eyes
Because when I fail
On the very next day
To love you, feed you
And be there to play
You won’t understand
Your heart will ask why?
Did I not return
From this final goodbye
Did I stop loving you?
Will my absence soon end?
What was the crime?
Can we make amends?
Because a dog doesn’t know
How life’s journey ends
Their heart cannot grasp
Why they’ve lost their best friend
I too will feel pain
And you will be so missed
But I gave you my soul
Fully knowing the risk
So I brace to submit
To the sorrow and crying
And pray bear the burden
As the one left behind
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