Please don’t you let me go yet, not like this.
I lost my heart to you, I could not help it.
Yours was it long before we ever kissed.
I know you knew it for so long a time —
And drawn to you the moment first I saw you.
I don’t want you to go yet but I fear you will.
It feels today that you already left, just when I turned.
The flowers on your window sill, a drop
Of dew in morning sun, evaporating,
Like tear from hazel eyes, are falling, mine.
I need your presence just a little while longer,
I don’t know if I'll ever find someone like you.
I thought we both found our orbits matching,
And, circling both around each other’s day —
For oh so many weeks and sunsets, meant,
That nothing could come easily between us.
I miss your face and touch and smile and laugh,
And thought the world of you. A million times,
In silence did I call you mine and said I love you.
Like whisper in the forest wind it touched you.
But silence now remains alone behind.
I never wanted you to have to wait for me but then,
I realize how much those words ‘to let you go’ are hurtful.
The other day, I held your hand, departing,
I never thought the world would leave me all without you.
Your touch was permanent, your happiness my goal.
Now left of both and overcome by falling,
I wish I said what every time I felt and made you mine.
Alas, too late, like shooting star in winter night,
You came, a marvel and passed quicker than my luck.
Please don’t you let me go yet, not like this.
Like wandrer breaks on icy lake and dies in coldness,
I wish I had explained to you all that you meant,
Before the depth of time and fate,
Pulled you from me like vision of a dwindling daylight.
I never said “I love you” clear enough
But in my eyes you saw it every day.
Please do not go like this, so fast, regardless,
I wish a season change came with less pain.
by Lennart