A Black Dog and Barbed Wire

Look into my eyes and you'll see fog
Look deeper, strive harder you'll find
Barbed wire and a black dog

A dog with barbed wire to bind
To help the dog is to bring pain
But to leave it would not sit well in my mind

So against myself I'll strain
To help the dog, now slick with blood
The barbed wire cutting into my vein

I'll let go and with a thud
As I collapse, defeated and alone
With the dog sitting in the mud

I could give the dog a bone
A pittance for what it's known