Ambling Dog

I am a discarded deuce
A cigarette butt in the gutter
Water through a sluice.

Sometimes I feel alone
Powerless to act
Like a chance come and gone.

I am a child of lost stars
Alone in a night of winters
Wandering between the wars.

If I gave my heart away
This road would miss my feet
And I would live in yesterday.

Look for me no longer.
I am just an ambling dog
Hoping to grow stronger.