Stray

As nights get longer, so do days get colder.
I share warm hands to get the cold shoulder.
Time runs out, bliss is over.
Too late to speak the words I never told her.

Eat, sleep, live alone.
Not the life I chose, but the one I own.
From dirt and dust I was thrown.
Into the dark, empty box of blood and bones.

Nowhere to go, nowhere to be.
Locked outside without a key.
Jealously they say I'm free.
Not yet, but I want to be.

I'm a stray dog with a broken chain.
I wear no collar, I have no name.

I'm a stray dog, I roam the nights.
Don't look my way, I just might bite.

I'll make my bed on any surface.
And I awake, eyes lost and nervous.
And then I roam, that's my purpose.
Mistakes my own so I deserve this.

I once was kind, I once was loyal.
Your betrayals have made me spoil.
Deceitful plans I often
foil.
Hiding shame in dirt and soil.

A drifting soul without a name.
Chasing stars and aeroplanes.
I fight my shadow's edge in vain.
When the city falls asleep, I remain.

I'm a stray dog with a broken chain.
I run through the city and back again.

I'm a stray dog I roam the nights.
Howling under the city lights.