Another rescue poem

[dlambertz]

This is off a rescue site I visit
Baggage

Now that I'm home, bathed, settled and fed,
All nicely tucked in my warm new bed.
I'd like to open my baggage
Lest I forget,

There is so much to carry-
So much to regret.
Hmm . . . Yes there it is, right on the top.
Let's unpack Loneliness, Heartache and Loss;
And there by my leash hides Fear and Shame.
As I look on these things I tried so hard to leave-
I still have to unpack my baggage called Pain.

I loved them, the others, the ones who left me,
But I wasn't good enough - for they didn't want me.
Will you add to my baggage?
Will you help me unpack?
Or will you just look at my things-
And take me right back?
Do you have the time to help me unpack?
To put away my baggage,
To never repack?

I pray that you do - I'm so tired you see,
But I do come with baggage-
Will you still want me?

-- Evelyn Colbath

"If not us, then who? If not now, then when? If not this dog, then which dog?" Anon

[brunosmom]

**crying**