i am dog

abandoned eyes,
melancholy
those eyes
of hopeful sadness.
such a delicate
girl
in your simple
pleasure.
you yearn
for forests
of unabated freedom.
content as
a sunlit porch.

we were in
love, you
and me, we
had a good run.
though,
in the end
i was not
good enough, i
could not
protect or
keep you; what
little i have
to offer
amounted
to nothing.

so it goes. chained
to a trailer
on wheels
going nowhere.
this poverty that
splits us, takes
us apart.

this world
is no place for us.
love cannot
prevent time
from passing. it
is no defense
against the wind,
changeable.

not a day
passes
where i do
not remember you,
missing you.
your wistful eyes
bear witness
to my soul.
we share this
sad passage.