Wish I Had A Dog

When I was a child

I was lonely

so lonely

and I would cry

you were as happy as a clam

In the space between

my house

and your house

there was a field

where I would watch you as you played

But it’s raining more now than it did back then

the fields are muddy and the winds have changed

the radio is silenced and the signal’s dead

and there’s no one to catch us

Do you feel free?

are you happy?

I wish I had a dog of my own

I would name it after you

beautiful trooper of the doomed

It’s all in the past

and I made peace

with the demons and the thieves

I’m riding with a husky in my jeep

Because it’s raining more now than it did back then

the fields are muddy and the winds have changed

the radio is silenced and the signal’s dead

and there’s no one to catch us

Do you feel free?

are you happy?