Must I leave you now
When the light sparkles off the trees
And the sunshine warms my skin?
Must I leave you now
When the earth
So wantonly fills my lungs with air?
Must I leave you now
When the beauty of sound, sense and feeling
Surround these moments of my life?
Tears swell to a cello's song
And drop notes down my cheeks
Because I sense the loss of this great earth.
Have pity on this failing heart.
Cover my old wounds and
Let me not bleed to death.
This beauty was too much to bear
A cross too heavy for the journey
But Oh, to struggle blindly in this joy.
If I must leave you now
Let the wounds be slow to heal
Let calmness shroud my corpse.
And when you deem the moment right
Let the darkness feed the light
And I shall be your own again.