Flee with me
As if the world was nothing
And feel with me
As if time had never been.
My hand holds up a star
That is nothing still
Compared with that tear
That is my world of silver.
In the day of my leaving
Your thoughts neither are like the flowers
Except for their color
Of shaded passions forever.
Maybe we could dance
Just so slowly along with voices
That feel like worlds of motion
As if change was never real.
Or possibly we could speak
Like rapid tears in the water
To call out the lonesome cry
In tapestries of endless color.
Even if the world was nothing
And all the time
That had ever been
Or could ever be.
Even if that time
Was all there between us
Still like flowers in the rain
I could hear your voice beside me.
Even if the earth was larger
Than all the size upon the sun
You would still see me beside you
As if we had never been apart.
And in asking why I think
So dearly of this love of mine
Then perhaps some would never know
Just what I saw upon that day.
Upon that day in which I left
I walked away so slow and heavy
I looked behind me
And I saw the sight my eyes had never seen.
There stood my love
In lights of heavy earth
As if everything had gone away
In a single flash of silence.
In seeing me leave
It was as if the world was never
But there in visions upon the water
Of time never ending in the stars.
In just one second
I could tell how much it is
That I am truly loved
With mercy through the mind.
A voice upon the stars
That rattles all the earth
Could never tell me clear enough
Of the value that I found.
The value that I see
Is in a love so fair and true
That my words can never be the same
As if the world was ever new.
And back to my love
I say the world is black with beauty
From all my awe
Of your tender love like this.
I cherish you
Like thousands of shadows which shape my mind
In never ending patterns
Growing ever deeper in the darkness.
In words and visions
And in thoughts more sublime
For all the earth
Is now like rain.
A rain like love
That grows deep within me
And sparks like the ocean
In little thoughts upon the sand.
I want my love to know forever
In little eyes upon the sun
That my love is here beside me now
And in more than now upon the earth.
Your star that fell upon that day
Is mine forever to remember
With thoughts that stand even deeper
Than all the starry eyes upon the earth.