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The Bluebird’s song brightened many lives and still does

By Paul Schaumburg posted 05-07-2018 09:25

  

I never met anyone in my life any more loving, giving, and fun than my mother, Laura. She was a guiding light in my world and a wonderful influence on many others. She enjoyed watching songbirds through the window to her backyard and she collected ceramic birds that still are prized possessions in my family. Three weeks after she died in the fall of 1998, I was inspired to write this poem. I hope it tells you something about her and her influence on others, including me. I also hope it makes you think of someone who greatly influenced you and your life, maybe your own mother.

 

The Bluebird sang her song of joy,

so beautiful and so sweet.

She sang each day throughout the years

and now her song’s complete.

 

She sang her tune with love and care;

her music was her life.

That song brought joy into the world,

a world so filled with strife.

 

An empty place is in my heart

now that the Bluebird’s gone.

But still her music’s in my ears,

the echo of that song.

 

In other lives that she touched,

her music can be heard.

For she could teach by what she did,

without a single word.

 

Oh, where now is that Bluebird,

who shared with us such love?

With the One who gave her voice,

she is in Heaven above.

 

Though she was but a songbird,

her music made her bright.

And she was taken home to Him,

upon her wing-ed flight.

 

In looking down upon us now,

she would not have us mourn.

For her song was long and beautiful,

and in Heaven it goes on.

Who has influenced your life by the way that person lived his or her own life?

 

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