Even as a youngster <br />My best friend was a girl. <br />But it’s not what you are thinking <br />So let me share these few words. <br /> <br />Nobody knows the love that I shared <br />With my loyal and faithful companion. <br />Running together, wild and free, <br />And she always was first <br />To look out for me. <br /> <br />Once by a serpent I tripped and fell. <br />I was so frightened that I could not yell. <br />My faithful companion sensed danger was near. <br />She destroyed that old snake, so I’m living this year. <br /> <br />So loyal, so faithful, so brave, and so true. <br />You know I’d be dead now, If it were not for you. <br />The joy that we shared in adventures together, <br />Is gone from me now, our joy has been severed. <br /> <br />You saved my life, but I could not save thee. <br />For that rattlesnake killed my dog, Penny! <br />Some day a journey will bid me depart. <br />I will listen in Heaven for dear Penny’s bark!<br /><br />Robert Edgar Burns<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-boy-s-best-friend/
