Jamie's Secret

Near a river bend where the stream runs clear,
one winter morning of a day last year,
I heard a secret that I know can say,
concerning Jamie,
who's passed away.

If you had known her then you'll agree,
her smiling eyes could make a blind man see,
she laughed with innocence and she moved with style,
a full-grown love, with a child-like smile.

She moved out West where the air is clean,
to study poetry at evergreen.
I thought I'd see her in a year or two,
'til we heard rumors that I feared were true.

They never found where she went that night,
the man she lived with said they'd had a fight,
and she left that cabin to walk alone.
He kept the light on,
but she never came home.

She must have gone by the riverside.
The searchers say that's how she must have died.
The winter water was cold with snow,
an icy boulder, and down she'd go.

I heard the news but I could not cry,
I should be shattered by my eyes were dry.
To feel no sorrow was my suprise.
The words came easy for those last goodbyes.

'Til I took a walk by the river bend,
where once we lingered when she was my friend.
I tried to melt the river of tears inside,
and the river flowed,
but joy I cried.

She may be gone from this life we know,
she may have frozen in the ice and snow,
but there's a secret that my heart can't tell,
except to say,
that she's safe and well.

Near a river bend where the stream runs clear,
one winter morning of a day last year,
I heard a secret that I know can say,
concerning Jamie,
who's passed away.