Jake, black beauty
Handsome and breathtakingly gorgeous boy
Sculpted muscles under gleaming obsidian coat
Stand forever in silhouette on the distant horizon
Watching over Vela's heart and home

Jake, so handsome
Every horse-crazy girl's someday dream
Sweet and strong
Silly and serious
Like a cast-iron figurine breathed into life
Everything she'd wish for
Even before she knew it

Jake, run free, colic gone
Whole and magnificent again
Wind in your silken mane
Send the thunder of joyful hoofbeats
Into Vela's dreams
And let her know
That love - love lives on
Even after we've had to say good-bye.