Dear God,

Please send me somebody who'll care!

I'm tired of running, I'm sick with despair 

My body is aching, it's so racked with pain

And dear God, I pray as I run in the rain

That someone will love me and give me a home

A warm cozy bed and a big juicy bone

My last owner tied me all day in the yard

Sometimes with no water and God, that was hard!

So I chewed my leash God and I ran away

To rummage in garbage and lie as a stray

But now God, I'm tired and hungry and cold

And I'm so afraid that I'll never grow old

They've chased me with sticks, hit me with stones

While I run the streets just looking for bones!

I'm not really bad God, please help if you can

For I have become just a "victim of man!"

I'm wormy dear God and I'm ridden with fleas

And all that I want is an owner to please!

If you find one for me God,, Ill try to be good

I won't chew their shoes and I'll do as I should.

I'll love them, protect them and try to obey

When they tell me to sit, to lie down or to stay!

I don't think I'll make it too long on my own

Cause I'm getting so weak and I'm, Oh so alone

Each night as I sleep in the bushes I cry

Cause I'm so afraid God, that I'm gonna die!

I've got so much love and devotion to give

That I should be given a new chance to live.

So dear God please, please answer my prayer

And send me somebody who will really care.

        --Unknown