When a Poem About Loss Is Like a Song You Can’t Forget

If you’ve ever been alone,
more alone than
only one

Like a bird without a feather
or a moon without a sun

If you’ve ever been forsaken
by the memories in your heart

Let ’em go, let ’em die
fly away and
make your start.

You gotta love
cuz you love
lovin’
your own love

Like the free breeze
and the blue skies
love the wings
of the dove.

Like an eagle
you can see
how to soar above
your pains

Be that white dove
bathed in light
learn to sing
your song again.


Scott Ufford
Copyright 2011