Note: Handsome Jazz was left for dead beside a deserted highway, in Columbus, South Carolina. He had heartworms, filed down teeth, scars covering his body, and an emaciation state before unseen in a living creature. He had been the bait-dog in a dog fighting ring in the United States. Yet he persevered. He forgave. He came to a Forever Home and built a new life as the kindest & best pet one might dream with whom to journey.

Forgiveness built on

Arrogance and selfishness

Spit-shined to a lackluster presence

Blinding yet false

And is gone.