Stranger Poem by Claire Abbott

A stranger became my friend,
A friend became a stranger,
I loved and lost my heart,
Yet my heart was lost to love.
A darkness, it swept over me,
I felt I couldn't go on,
A ray of light you shone through,
And helped me on my way.
Goodbye to the past, although it's sad,
It's not such an awful thing,
Hello to the future and what's before me,
I can follow my dream.
But without losing and having lost,
I would never have found or been found,
You've been there fo me
To know you is to be proud.

2002