Poem - Farewell

If I bid you farewell

Finally letting you go.

My tears camouflaged

Like a dried-up river’s flow.

If I unshackled your soul

Setting you, forever free

A new flight, a different world

A new nest; a different tree.

Horizons-blue, alluring

Flocks, calling out to you

Magpies, swans, sparrows

Blackbirds and cuckoo.

If I unshackled your soul

Setting you, forever free

Would you still remember?

Would you come back for me?

NOTE: This poem is nominated for the SALISMANIA.com Best Poem Of The Year Award 2017.