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My name is Fred and I live my life without many worries on my mind

My owners are special and always provide me my food and treat me kind

I am growing older by the day and my joints feel stiff when it rains

My fifteenth birthday has come and gone and today my legs are full of pains

I am told by my owners to eat special food that will help me stay strong

I hate the taste and eat it all when I am hungry, because I know they’re not wrong

They really try to keep me alive and yet someday soon I may die

I hope I go fast with not much pain and I really don’t want to whimper or cry

I am a proud dog used too running wild in my youth basically free

Now I enjoy this soft chair and barely move hardly able to see

My hearing seems to be ok; it is my eyesight that troubles me

I hear a stranger’s car pull into the yard yet I cannot see who it could be

I am afraid my days of being a good guard dog have passed me by

I feel pains in parts of my body and that is no way to die

I want to go peacefully without pain living out my final days until I die

Death seems to occupy my mind these days and I wonder why

The neighbors’ dog Charlie lived till he was fifteen and then he was hit by a car

I wonder sometimes if Charlie walked on purpose across the road too far

He was sick and he showed no fear when it was his time to die

Perhaps I will meet Charlie in dog heaven way up high in the sky