Catch! 

A dogs’ purpose is

To chase, to woof, to

Run after the bone flung from

It’s owners hands. 

A dog’s purpose can be

Either one or two. One 

Being the protector, to bark

At intruders and two being 

The friend, to love and cuddle.

So if you think about it,

A dog’s purpose isn’t all

That different from ours— that is 

To simply be...

There. 

Because being there, 

Is more than enough; and perhaps even 

The greatest purpose one 

Can ever find. 

1. fur and pats and hugs and kisses 

2. scenes of love and loyalty and sweetness transitioning to 

3. days of summer and blue skies calmness 

4. running and panting and loving and

5. endless seamless laughter, that  

6. seems to me like that’s a dog’s purpose

he tells you of love you don’t credit yourself for

he does whatever you say when you don’t allow yourself to 

he loves you for everything you don’t love yourself for 

and he is happier to see you than you yourself 

and he’s trying,

Everyday

to pull you up from the abyss you’re drowning from 

and i go, 

smooth like the wind, wavering like a kite 

and oh, 

here we are. 

a loosening of my collar, a flutter of the heart. 

"here's where we part.”

and you turn, 

a wistful smile, a knife to the gut. 

your shadow stretches, 

and right there, 

a puppet slumped on the ground, all strings untied

 -

in the end, 

i choose you anyway. 

the phantom shadow that still haunts the doormat.

yet the years of golden sunshine given 

fulfills the heart of a child who loves the playmate

of guileless yaps and steady innocence

and was the crowning joy of an afternoon romp.

And their purpose. A dog’s purpose is 

To be man’s Best Friend, when man is friendless, 

When man is tired and needs comfort a dog’s purpose becomes man. 

When man slumps face down onto the floor, exhausted smile 

giving way to fur and then suddenly the world turns one colour less, 

wait a moment am I seeing double? two adorable dogs? 

for the price of one? 

 

A dog! Get one today. 

Hanging upside down 

A God morose 

Deliverance divine

Into those blue eyes

Everything else fades away

Melting except 

The pure snow in you

The reflection of myself in you

Maybe you and I 

Came onto earth 

Met at that alley way

Maybe God put us together

To fill up 

That emptiness

To learn to love

To smile 

Who are we to define the purpose of a dog ? 

They have minds to do that for themselves . 

Rather than being subject to my fancy, 

I would rather see dogs as people, 

As worthy and commendable companions. 

(Who happen to be really cute and nice) 

And I foresee myself in blissful (unofficial) matrimony with one. 

these quasi-wolves have infiltrated 

our homes our hearts 

Big small furry maybe not 

Inside these creatures lurk a silver 

of humanity 

Far beyond ours

What is a dog’s purpose? 

To love and love without any end? 

Affection reverberating in every bark,

a thundering testament of romance 

More importantly, what is our purpose? 

To grasp onto their overflowing love 

with our inadequate hands? 

A hand tightly around the leash of unbridled joy?

Perhaps we depend on them 

To lead us to a world

brighter, bigger, better

Fused together as one entity 

Man and quasi-wolf 

It's bright, flat

Moving 

Falling ---

I caught it! And I brought it back 

to her. She smiled 

The loveliest July in mid-summer 

There, I've done it 

I caught the sun