A LETTER AND A FEATHER

WHEN I CAME HOME THIS WAS WHAT I WAS LEFT

 

Found a little bird

Had fallen from its nest.

I couldn’t find its momma

Though I tried my very best.

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Was just a little baby bird

Tried to spread it wings to soon,

Brought it home and nurtured it

Fed with a dropper and a spoon

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I had myself a lady fair

More than just a friend of mine

She named the baby sugar

Name fit her really fine

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Sugar grew so very strong

Fed by my loving ladies hand

How she seemed to love that bird

So much I couldn’t understand

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Had to take a trip one day

Had to stay there over night

But when I did return

No sugar or lady were in sight.

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Saw a letter on the table

A feather laying by its side.

Opened letter slowly

My fear I tried to hide

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Said “My dearest Knight

How I love you so ..

But like little sugar

Felt was time for me to go.

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Yes I really love you

But not the way I should

Never want to hurt you

If I stayed I knew I would.

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Like our little sugar

I have gotten strong

To stay here any longer

I know it would be wrong.

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You may never want

To hear from me again

I know its very hard

Now even to be friends.

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But maybe in month or two,

Though probably even more.

Hope that we can at least

Try to open up that door.

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Though sugar now has flown away

She left a feather just for you

I know she trying to say this

Like me, she’ll always love you too.

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That happened not so long ago

Their memories I will keep

But that feather and that letter

Will always make me weep.

Reviews

[zainul]

I appreciate your imagination and power of storytelling.
You crafted the rhymed piece with passion.

[Patricia Blackie]

At the start I thought it would be a bit simple and a little boring, but as the story went on I realised that it was very truthful and though provoking :) love it!

[Kiari Sabon]

i love it

[Vestigial Appendage]

Don't know if the rhythm really fit the mood. A couple of spelling errors. Cool story, man.

[Kenneth The Poet]

Cool.