Over the hill we did this morning come

Marching forward avidly and quite numb

To the event which was about to happen

A squabble which unnerved so, we're done



All of a sudden, out of one house at top

Came a little white dog, who did stop

Us in our tracks and keep us from more

As it surrounded us, and then did bore



Into my dog - who is three times its size

And as it did so, I thought I would die

Grabbing mine quite as quickly as I could

Realizing she was even more scared, good



And so I held her tight in my arms to chest

As the bond we had became even stronger blessed

With the new knowledge we would ever protect

Each other from the slings & arrows which affect



So many of us as we trudge along thru our life

Dealing with the daily torrent of so much strife

Which other little beasts do take it upon themselves

To foist onto us for they have no better way to sell



What it is THEY are ... than to quite run amuck

On the streets near where we live as they truck

Their perverted views and attack us mercilessly

Dealing out their blows without shame heartily



Kind of like this little white dog on the hill

Who had nothing better to do than attack mine still 

Just because we were there and no better reason

And now I pain so for those ALL who are so mean



And so oblivious to the pain and hurt they inflict

As they go about attacking others with their sticks

And thus go about their lives in vacuums which miss

Taking in the joy of life which all around us exists



- Tristram