One breath away from mother Oceania

Your nimble feet make prints in my sands

You have dong good for yourselves

Since you left my wet embrace

And crawled ashore

Every boy, is a snake is a lily

Every pearl is a lynx, is a girl

Sweet like harmony made into flesh

Children sublime

You show me continents

I see islands

You count the centuries

I blink my eyes

Hawks and sparrows race in my waters

Stingrays are floating

Across the sky

Little ones, my sons and my daughters

Your sweat is salty

I an why…

 

A thousand years, a thousand more,

A thousand times a million doors to eternity

I may have lived a thousand lives, a thousand times

An endless turning stairway climbs

To a tower of souls

If it takes another thousand years, a thousand wars,

The towers rise to numberless floors in space

I could shed another million tears, a million breaths,

A million names but only one truth to face

 

A million roads, a million fears

I could speak a million lies, a million songs,

A million rights, a million wrongs in this balance of time

But if there was a single truth, a sing light

A single thought, a singular touch of grace

Then following this single point, this single flame

The single haunted memory of your face

 

I still love you

I still want you

A thousand times the mysteries unfold themselves

Like galaxies in my head I may be numberless, I may be innocent

 

I may be numberless, I may be innocent

I may know many things, I may be ignorant

Or I could ride with kings and conquer many lands

Or win this world at cards and let it slip my hands

I could be cannon food, destroyed a thousand times

Reborn as fortune’s child to judge another’s crimes

Or wear this single faith, I have but one belief

I still love you

I still want you

A thousand times the mysteries unfold themselves

Like galaxies in my head

On and on the mysteries unwind themselves

Eternities still unsaid

‘Til you love me

 

In delay there lies no plenty

Then come kiss me

Sweet and twenty

Youth’s a stuff that will not endure