The Waiting Room

Never knew that I needed you Until you just arrived And I found a lifeline In those big brown eyes When you found something you liked Well you gave it to me Then you gazed out the window Of my passenger seat But nothing lasts forever I wish it did I’d wait forever in this waiting room Because I know I can’t leave here without you I’d stay forever in this waiting room But I know you can’t be here anymore On my happiest of days We would swim in the sea And you knew you swam better So you stayed close to me In that single bed hotel You slept on the floor and I watched you breathing Couldn’t love you anymore Then something inside you changed The hair upon your head it turned to grey And I could see you were in pain Though if you could I know you’d never say On the day the vet walked in And told me it was time I looked into your big brown eyes And you looked back at mine I loosened your collar And I cried and I cried And I thanked you for friendship And your years by my side I told you you were good The best that there’d been And I watched for your last breath As you fell to your dreams --- The Waiting Room - Lucy Spraggan