The weekly poem

In a world of "you and me",

I am the one that let you go,

I am the love that’s been set free.

I am a flower in a bed of snow,

I am a ship that’s lost at sea,

Will I ever see the shore again,

And will someone rescue me?

From Issue 1085

2nd May 1997

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