Vemod

Purposeless man of clay
Darkness: roll away
A silent stream leads the flow,
moving on and on

Random lines fall in place,
adulterines slowly fade away
I'm sucked in deep by the flow,
taken in by the undertow

I watch the clouds through my window,
sail across the sky
And underneath the canopy,
gulls, they wheel and glide
The shoreline stretches endlessly
along these windswept plains
I wander through this barren land
where solitude remains

I've made myself a universe
in this far-off home
Unseen from the outside world,
here I live and roam
And though I've tried assiduously
to heal the wounds with time
you'll haunt me in my memories until I die

If I should meet you after all these years,
how could I find the words?
I'd greet you with silence and with tears
for all the time we've lost

The days get shorter as weeks pass,
summer turns to fall
The birds will cease to sing and chant
and follow with the call
It's getting clearer and the truth
unsparingly reveals
I've drifted imperceptibly out to sea

If I should meet you after all these years,
how could I find the words?
I'd greet you with passion and with tears
for all the time we've lost
time lost

The neon dawn has just begun,
the day is here that wasn't meant to come
She's walking by the frozen sea
trying to count the stars that she can't see

A distant sound of black rain in the water
The pale moon shining soft through a cloud
The sun is turning black in the horizon
The wind is slowly tearing her apart

And so our time has come, my friend
The child who cries and no-one seems to care
The echoes of the birds are gone
The sky is painted grey, but it's so warm

Searching for a light in the darkness,
trying to keep your eyes from the dirt
Taste the bitter wine of tomorrow
I'm walking on a path that never ends