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 storm has raged here for hours,
the water's plunging in on me
The remains of my creation
is swallowed slowly down
by the troubled sea
into unconsecrated ground
gone eternally, gone eternally

Feeder of my visions,
carrier of my soul
The last hope for the dreamers,
now crashing to the shore,
pinioned and torn
In presumption and with my foolish pride
I challenged the storm, I challenged the storm

I'm the sole survivor,
the only one left alive
Now my limbs seem to fail me
and time has blurred my mind
I'm doomed to this fate
The deal has already been signed
and the hour's getting late
The hour's getting late, much too late