Black Dog Poem by Josephine Dunn

Is your Black Dog a nippy terrier
Snapping at your heels?
Or a drooling Labrador
Who follows you at meals?

If your Black Dog's a Yorkie
Do you keep it in a bag
Or if it's a Chihuahua
Do you dress it up in drag?

Perhaps it's a hunting hound
Panting with stinking breath
Hot on your heels and driving
You to an untimely death

Maybe it runs like the wind
On paws so light and fleet
Or pads so soft and quiet
As ever closer it creeps

Is your Black Dog so often with you
That's it's an old familiar friend
Lying down beside you
So you can never mend

Or not Black Dog but Wolf
A creature of the wild
Howling in the darkness
And as ancient as time.