Loved - Julia Brown

They’re building houses now by the road

The old stone church and kids selling coke

The bluest sky I’ve ever seen

The cemetery filled with burning leaves

I don’t want to find

Anyone else to waste my time

I don’t want to find

Anyone else to waste my time

A flightless bird though not by choice

On the side of the road with both wings cut off

Another bird found by the lake

It’s severed head lying two feet away

I don’t want to find

Anyone else to waste my time

I don’t want to find

Anyone else to waste my time

Death comes to claim

What is loved the most

You know I’ve loved

This world too much

When death comes to claim

What I loved the most

You’ll know I’ve loved

This world so much