This is my last day as the Featured Author. It has been an awesome experience, and I want to thank everyone for listening and participating, whether through public posts, PM’s or by just reading through all this stuff.

As a tribute to all of you who struggle through your own quicksand of depression, I dedicate this song. This will be my last “official” post.

This appears as a poem in my book, but I originally wrote it as a song. The first three lines came to mind while waiting at a bus stop. By the time I got home, I had written the rest of it on the back of an envelope. The image of the soaring eagle became symbolic of my deepest self throughout my struggles to escape the quicksand of my despair and depression. And when it came time to write my story, there was no doubt what the title had to be.

EAGLE BORN TO FLY

I’m just a poet who’s searching for rhymes
Trying to sing you a few simple lines
Sharing the song that I hear in my heart
‘cuz the love that I see
In You frees in me
The eagle born to fly.

I’ve been that eagle just learning to fly
Trying to find my own piece of the sky
You’ve come along with a love that is strong
And this love that I see
In You frees in me
This eagle born to fly.

I cherish you,
You’ve carried me through
With a love so gentle and free
And I love You -
You know that I do -
With a love that’s bigger than me…

I’ve been a pilgrim out wandering lonely
Lost and alone in my desert of fear
You reached out Your hand and You called me friend,

Now this love that I see
In You frees in me
The eagle born to fly.

Yes, the love that I see
In You frees in me
This eagle born to fly….

Copyright Sharon C. Matthies, 1983, Dartmouth, NS, Canada