A Second Chance Short A Shade Of Gray

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    I saw a stallion one day many years ago battered and bruised. I thought to myself, with just alittle care and love, he again could be beautiifal. So I gave him the name and wrote this about him. Hope you enjoy!

    A Second Chance Short A Shade Of Gray

    A Second Chance Short A Shade Of Gray: Drew Lancaster


    Alone in a pasture

    One shade short of gray

    Ears standing back

    Even though I was far away


    Stood the battered stallion

    Flies his only friends

    His eyes black, belly swoll

    His pasture soaked in sin


    I reached for him a scent to smell

    A hand to be kind for once

    Ears moving forward shows well

    Yet still he woes the price I sell


    A simple hand to brush

    Cleaning the hooves I kneel

    The bridle to contain

    What others tried to kill


    The blinders set his sight

    Others he did not see

    Never looked back the day at the track

    A champ never looked so sweet


    The underdog, they say

    The one so white and clean

    The one who today won

    Trotting fast as if to mean


    The one who never should

    "What price did you pay", they say

    "Just love, see he had no name"

    "Thus, A Second Chance Short A Shade Of Gray"


    Yes he was the stallion

    None would choose to claim

    The one who broke the record mile

    To win his race today

    Thus, let it be known, such grace be shown

    There he goes, A Second Chance Short A Shade Of Gray

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    Hampton commented on A Second Chance Short A Shade Of Gray

    01-02-2010

    Very nice poem for animal lovers and others as well. Well done.
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