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Pet's Heal

May 12, 2010
By JessicaEralia BRONZE, Anchorage, Alaska
JessicaEralia BRONZE, Anchorage, Alaska
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Favorite Quote:
"Life, It's the ultimate sin, a game with no rules that you're expected to win" - Kid Rock


The drive is filled with excitement
A child's impatience evident
He wait's for what seems like hours
Sitting in the backseat
Staring out the windows
Finally they arrive
Gathering his strength
Standing
Carefully on his crutch
He wobbles in
Stepping ungracefully around the cages and boxes
Taking it all in
The looks of tired puppies
Squawks of loud parakeets
Fish silently pacing their glass tanks
He gazes at the little black kittens
Touches lightly the glass windows
Where within the transparent wall lies
Newborn puppies lying upon one another
Glancing up at the attention
Then reaching for a ball to play with
He staggers to search every box
To look at every innocent beautiful creature
In the corner he finds another box
Smaller than the rest
He peeks through the open top
What is found is a little runt
A puppy with big brown eyes
Light brown in color
Missing a leg
She glances up at the boy
This one he says
She's just like me
I want this one

The author's comments:
I wrote this at school, and originally had no idea on a subject to write a free verse on. It's hard for me to write unless I feel strongly about something or am caught up in emotions. I thought of my three dachshunds, and how the simple souls aren't so simple, and have sat with me while I cried, and calmed me enough to bring my sanity back.

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