A big old bulldog
out in the backyard,
is like life, letting you know getting in is easy,
going through's going to be damned hard.
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A great poem, life is a strange thing, it can be very hard to understand.
I suppose we have to endure the bad as much as we relish the good in life Smoky to keep the scales balanced. That we never take any of it for granted. Good piece this.
To me, the last two verses could be interspersed between every two verses (like a song refrain) but I admit that would make the poem awfully long. But I really enjoyed what you did with this one.