Alcyone Notes

Can you tell me the way up?
Can you show me what three words can do?
Will you hold me tight, do you have to go?
Will you touch my lips, do you have to stop?
Now I know,
Now you know.
Will you stand with me?
I question because I am afraid.
When you leave will you think of me?
Will this vast blue distance lessen your love?
What do you seek? No oracle is needed.
You are all that I know, what more is there to ask?
We know and yet we are afraid.
Is this childish, is this False?
I only know it to be true.
At night I dream of you, no, I try.
I have had you and I want your warmth.
When will you come back?
When will we face this together?
I will not wait for some god's hooded message,
Nor a saddened ghost.
What is this distance?
I know together we can face
Alone we both die.
Now you know how I feel
Will you stay with me?
I ask and question through this distance
For I am afraid.
Do you still look at the same moon,
Bright and shining through the night?
Do you whisper my name and your love
While away?
Will you still love me
Through that open door
That vast distance?
I do not know
For I am afraid.

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1996