Written in the early 80's - Fly Away

The following poem was written in the early 1980's and is part of a collection of verse from that era, that I recently rediscovered.  It definitely meets the criteria for this blog.

Fly Away

Fly away, fly away

Fly away sorrow

Leave me now, so I

May have a bright morrow.

Don’t tease me with the

Light, of a mid-storm calm.

Only to fill it with the wind

That rips the life from a palm.

You’ve watched me rise,

To stand proud and tall.

Only to trip me, so

You could watch the fall.

So fly away, fly away

Leave me NOW. Sorrow.

I don’t have any more

Lives from which to borrow.

Richard Nurse

December 1981