Poodle

There's always celebrities somewhere
To make all the wannabes stare
Elaborate spooling of interest spun out like thin air
So don't do me any more favors
They're just tagged and filed away
And I'll not stand up as a villain in your upwardly martyred display

No one's holding a gun to your head-stock
No one's hoarding the keys to your dead lock
No one said this was ever a sure shot
You take risks like the rest

She traveled Alaska with poodles
More than six days on a sled
The notion was more than unlikely but stuck in her head
'Till she's gliding along over tundra
And speeding past huskies with grace
Nobody thought that the woman and poodles could win the Iditarod race

No one chooses to struggle in vain
No one else is defending your name
The unmarked horizons remain
It's all there for the risk
And whose rules are you breaking?
It's all there for the taking

She traveled the Arctic with poodles
To most an hysterical sight
But to see her walk round after they'd all bed down
In the ground-breaking Arctic night