A Bird Has Flown Away

A bird has flown away Into the bright new sky To give its shining day For earth in quiet high Dark is deep like ocean In its forgotten past Each hour of its erosion Leaves of a fallen rust Clouds are now swaying To give the blue its glow As ray in clouds are playing With more and more to show On to the faraway horizon By the waves of the sea My thoughts shall run on Like everything that's free And bring the splashes deep Through flowing billows And those fresh moments keep In tides of past gone flows