my poem...or song lyrics
You and I
I
This life-long journey over lands and seas,
You follow me wherever I will go.
No place to hide, or place to put my regrets
And all around reminds myself of you.
The thoughts of days I need to leave behind,
In life some matters must be sacrificed.
II
But should some things in life be sacrificed?
Becoming captivated by the seas?
And I could swim and never glance behind.
Still lingering - for I can't let you go.
A frame of sanity I find in you,
A way to weave myself out of regrets.
III
Mistakes that lead to unplanned regrets,
though I miss a path - a way I sacrificed,
Surrendering my life and trusting you,
For me, a journey you would make 'cross seas,
How after that - then I would want to go!
And I would want to leave this life behind.
IV
But I could not succumb and look behind.
Not Orpheus who also has regrets,
And I must capture reasonings for letting go.
A reason why some things were sacrificed.
Another reason under crashing seas,
But now I see the answer there by you.
V
I shouldn't keep you waiting - I need you.
I shouldn't run from you or leave behind
My journey that would end if tossed to seas.
But why - oh, why should I have sacrificed?
If not to follow you - why let you go?
VI
And life can change as it may come and go,
But you don't change - for I can trust in you.
I now know why and what I sacrificed.
I now know why I left the world behind.
And waves - white waves to cover my regrets,
The tide goes out and I to soothing seas.
VII
Unspoken words I go and leave behind,
Not needed now - for you I won't regret,
I sacrificed it all to calm the seas.