Promised

How can I feed you when I cannot feed myself
I open up the cupboards and there's nothing on the shelf
When I got you I promised to always care for you
But now I feel so helpless and I don't know what to do

I've prayed and prayed for hours, but no answers have been found
And the last thing that I want to do is take you to the pound
I look into your eyes and see the trust, devotion and love
I've become a person that I'm surely not proud of

I promised that I'd care for you until your dying day
But everything around me is in such a disarray
I don't know what to do, don't even know where I might live
And what I'm going to do to you I ask you to forgive

I need to find a home for you, how can you understand
Even as I sit here, I feel your head upon my hand
I never meant for this to happen, it was something unforeseen
The thought of giving you away just seems to me obscene

Please forgive as I leave you and I turn and walk away
I pray that people in this place will be kind during your stay
And if a home is not to be found, I pray that you will sleep
Within God's arms forever without pain on clouds so deep