GOODBYE TO THE NIGHTINGALE

I have never seen the Nightingale…she is hidden by the evening shade

but I still loved to listen to her nightly serenade.

I have never seen the Nightingale…I have searched but never found

still I love to listen to her singing…love the beauty of her sound. 

I never knew Aretha Franklin…but I knew the joy her voice could bring…

and I’ve wondered… is this how she would sound…if the nightingale could sing?

I never knew Aretha Franklin…but in her music I’d rejoice…

and I like to think while she was here…the nightingale found her voice.

No, I never knew Aretha Franklin…but from now on when I hear a birdsong in the 

Spring….

I’ll close my eyes and remember…how that nightingale could sing…