Shelter Workers

Animals didn’t ask to be put on this earth

Yet became living souls from the moment of birth

So how can we treat them with such little respect

To just throw them away when they are less than perfect

The numbers so high, shelters just can’t keep up

Yet try as they may for each sweet, little pup

The heartaches are many, for they can’t save them all

The faces so many, they can’t even recall

The answer’s so simple, I can’t believe it’s not done

Just to stop of the breeding and the battle would be won

But so many people are just ignorant of the cause

The breeding won’t stop ‘til it’s put into laws

To those who keep trying to save lives every day

No matter how heavy in their heart it does weigh

I say special prayers every day just for you

For strength and for guidance to just get you through

For tomorrow will bring yet more heartache and pain

And all of your patience I know it must drain

Yet you never give up, just keep plugging along

To save of the lives who have done nothing wrong

So to you I say thanks from the bottom of my heart

I know it’s not much, but at least it’s a start

There are so many days you must feel no one cares

Of the sacrifice you give, there is nothing that compares