Outside, let’s go

Wind in the fur

Grass in the toes

Best day of my life

No stress or strife

 

What’s that over there

Is it a murderer?

No, thank goodness, 

It’s just the neighbor

 

Doesn’t mean I won’t roo roo roof
with a little drool on my tooth

 

Mom usually walks fast

Keeps the pace really quick

But I want to stop

And my nose I will stick

 

In the bush on the corner

By the tree in the lawn

Oh look, here is some trash

Take a sniff and I yawn

 

Gotta stop and go potty

Mark my spot for the Rottie
Who lives down the way

Thinks this block is his place
(It’s not!)

 

Most of the day I lay on the couch

Though my joints are real stiff

I jump at the chance 

To go on a walkie

All the way round the blockie

 

What I don’t know is

Momma sees me get older

The anticipation for her

On her chest like a bolder

 

So now with arthritis

We mosey around

Stick my nosey in everywhere 

Chronicling smells and sounds

 

She imagines my brain

Like a cabinet of files

Each sniff that I make

Catalogued in profiles 

 

Drawers rolling outward

Scratch and sniff notes inserted

Then slam the drawer shut

Oh the mind of a pupper

 

And when we get home

I take a load off

And mom snuggles up

Savors essence of paws

 

How many more walks

Will the two of us see?

I don’t worry about it

Momma does that for me