Dog Mother

Now, the rain is gone And the grass was still wet between my toes As the cool feeling was joyous After being in the hot house With the excitement of the colour of green The grass had come and made my heart sing It was washing the fear of fire from it But the blue skies in the afternoon disappointed me I found I wanted to hide in the basement And write sonnets of despair And felt my dog wanted a walk However, he wanted to sleep After he needed to..... He's old and need to sleep I shouldn't worry but I do