Strangers and Lovers

Stranger and lover

you are near, yet so far,

I don’t know who you are;

so look in my eyes and

renounce your disguise.

Locked in your world,

beyond a high wall,

so near yet so far -

open the door

and show who you are.

Silent as night,

as an owl in flight

you say not a word;

but your eyes talk of worlds

a million miles far.

I would know who you are.

Lover and stranger,

twin rivers we flow

from mountain to sea -

waters apart

at the end as at start;

how should I know

the being you are,

you are always so far.

Our love was a spring

united as one

as all love should be;

all rivers at last

must join in the sea.

So how can it be

you are so far from me

yet here by my side?

You lay as if stone,

too deeply alone,

touch me and see,

you are too far from me.

Open your heart

and be one of the free;

have the courage to be

one spirit with me.