I Will Keep Returning

Who are you,

You flower of spring?

I was all alone,

Believing every dream was wrong.

Then why did you come

To colour my heart,

When in just a little while,

You'll be gone again?

You'll forget

All the bonds we've made.

Still, leave a little door

Open in some corner of your heart.

I'll return to you

At the day's end,

When the crows call out

To greet the dawn,

As dew upon the morning grass.

You will know it's me.

Call me close,

Hold me with tenderness,

And leave upon me

A mark of love.

I'll return again and again,

Always to you.

Open the southern window.

When the breeze comes,

Speak to it.

Let it carry your words,

Let it bring your touch.

Stay awake at night.

I'll become a tuberose,

Falling gently into your hands.

I'll become a paper flower,

With a handful of mistakes beside me.

Will you accept me still?

Sometimes,

I'll be the untamed fall of your hair.

Sometimes,

The anklet around your feet.

Just keep wearing me.

And if the darkness of sadness

Closes in around you,

Tell it this:

I'll walk across your sky every day,

A little light among the distant stars.

Stay awake within your dreams.

I'll come and watch you there,

Blurred like a light

You can see,

But never quite reach.

And when even that light begins to fade,

When the stars grow dim

And the night forgets my name,

I'll still be there,

Somewhere in the farthest corner of your sky,

Losing a little of myself

With every passing night,

Yet finding my way back to you,

Again and again.

Until nothing of me remains

But a faint light in your memory,

Still reaching for you

From somewhere far away...