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OF PUTNAM COUNTY FLORIDA

"PEOPLES EFFORTS TO PERSEVERE ANIMALS LIFE AND SITUATIONS"

     [a Florida state-registered non-profit]

In Memory of Mary

My name is Mary and I died today.

I know, ‘cause the Lord came to take me away.

I looked in his eyes and I just asked him,  “Why?

Just why did the ones that I love make me die?

I stayed in my cage and I tried to be good--

and wanted to be the best dog that I could.”

“It wasn’t you,” the Lord said with a sigh,

“You were kind through it all and you held your head high.

It’s the people who threw you away as a pup--

the same way they’d toss out an old plastic cup.

There are millions of Mary’s who die every day

and I’m here to love them and take them away.”

It didn’t seem right and he said, “It’s not fair,”

He said as he lovingly stroked down my hair,

that people don’t learn when you die for their sin--

“The choices they made left no room at the inn.

The place you were staying just needed more space

And you died so another could come take your place.”

I tried very hard but they all passed me by

They said, “she’s too plain or too old or too high.”

They wanted a pup or a pure pedigree

But the one thing I wished they had wanted was me.

My name is Mary and I died today.

I know, ‘cause the Lord came to take me away.

                                                                            [by JoEllen D. for PetPals, Inc.]