RESCUED
I sit alone
So far from home,
Looking out at all the scared faces.
Families gone, left no traces.
That day, I jumped right into the car.
We hadn’t driven very far.
I thought, “The park!!”
I started to bark!!
Wait!!
What is my fate?
This is no park!
There are no trees, it’s way too dark.
Where are THEY taking me?
How can this be?
Why don’t YOU look back at me??
Why won’t you see?
What are they going to do to me?
I sit here alone in a cell.
Is that fear all around me, I smell?
Now, a long time has passed
Since I saw you last…
I guess you’ll not be coming back for me.
How long did you own me?
Two years? No, three!
I loved you dearly, did you not love me?
Today is bright and sunny and clear.
Number 1996, my number, I hear.
The worker approaches and says with a sigh
Number 1996, with a tear in her eye.
Is she happy, is she sad?
I can’t tell..that’s bad.
As we walk down the hall
I’m so nervous, I fall.
She gently lifts me up and tells me today
That I will be able to run and to jump and to play
With the angels, she says, who will be taking me away.
What does she mean? What does she say??
We get to the door, do we go through the blue?
Where happy people wait patiently with children, too!
Do we go through the amber?
That hides the gas chamber.
How did I get to this moment in time?
I stand here healthy, in my prime!
This point in time, I know, must be braved,
Because either door, TODAY I GET SAVED
