Love, Like A Bird
I found some love in a world of lovelessness
It tumbled at my feet like a bird out of a nest
I picked it up and held it in my hand
It spoke to me but I didn't understand.
So I took it home and put it in my room
With lots of sun and space to help it bloom
I tended it and mended it's broken wing
And after many days, I heard it sing.
Never having heard a song of love
I wondered what this unknown thing was made of
And soon the wondrous marvel, with my aid
Began to find it's strength there as we played.
It hung about my shoulders happily
And sang and kept it's trusting eyes on me
And through the days and nights with stars above
A world of lovelessness, we fell in love.
And love taught me so much I never knew
How to know the false from what was true
How to tell the flatteries from charms
And captivated me within it's arms.
Each day I woke in joy and rose in bliss
Hungry for love's touch and for it's kiss
Tearing down the walls around my heart
I let my fear and loneliness depart.
Who knows what love is truly or can be
A mountain's height or depth of silver sea
Unbridled passion or a sweet embrace
Love changes form and often times, it's face.
We lived and loved like people ought to live
Giving love like lovers ought to give
No thought had I that it would ever end
That I would lose my lover and my friend.
I danced with it in joy around the room
So unaware of shadow or of gloom
The windows opened wide on that bright day
And when I wasn't looking, my love just flew away.
©by Voo Shining Stone
June 10, 2020
1:05 a.m.
