Come Back Still

  
 Who has taken your heart?
 Tell them—they are not worthy of you at all!
 Who has wrapped you in dependence?
 Tell them—they are not worthy of you at all!
 Hold me close, all your pain, I'll take with open palms, I promise.
 Just stay by my side—I care nothing for any pain.
  
 Why is your heart breaking? This was not meant to be!
 When hearts break, the hurt runs so deep—you know this, beloved?
 Why does this world spin drunk, leaving you behind?
 No one understands you, your true self as it is—no one wants it that way...
 Listen to me, be free, live magnificently! Save your own life yourself!
 When I see you, so much I want to say, yet no words leave my lips!
  
 Why, beloved, are you alone like the sun?
 Who broke your heart so cruelly?
 Why do only deceivers receive love?
 This whole world could be yours, if you wanted it!
 Just don't make mistakes for the price of mistakes—that's all.
 Who has understood you? When? Ever?
 Why does your heart dance only in measured beats?
 Know this, beloved—none of them are worthy of having you!
 Forget, beloved, forgive and live!
 Don't question yourself so much—live in answers!
  
 One day I will grow old.
 Returning to old times, I'll understand then...
 If this today's tomorrow had turned out different,
 If we today had lived a little more,
 If we had bound life with a few more songs, a few more melodies...
 Every tear would be tears of reflection, the weight of breath wouldn't weep with regret anymore!
  
 If old times could truly be regained,
 What would I want then? What would I change about myself? What would I finally say that I never said, not even by mistake?
 Coming to today...would I have grown so weary? Would all my questions have troubled me just the same?
 The tomorrow that made me think so much yesterday, why does another tomorrow trouble me again today?
 Then is it...that thinking about tomorrow is life itself?
 The love that made you weep yesterday—is it the same love you weep for today?
  
 We two will live together and grow old...
 That day we'll both wonder, laughing—where does life's path lead? Which bend?
 We were meant to live in joy, yet why did we willfully take on sorrow! Under what spell?
 That day, drench me in your fragrance! Everything changes...only fragrance remains!
 Even if I'm not there that day, still ask all the questions one by one...standing by my grave.
  
 These eyes see nothing anymore, even sight seems gone!
 What fragrance floats in this heart, I cannot understand at all!
 I've seen the world in your eyes, lived in dreams, and gone blind,
 Your light was a fire-pit—I never knew before the burning!
 Now when I open my eyes I see everything...except you, so I keep these eyes closed!
  
 Don't boast of those two eyes—
 Except for me, who has valued your eyes?
 Some people have no love, yet they see,
 Some people have love, so they cannot see.
 Not everyone seeks light—some exist who, when light comes, live in darkness!
 Only emptiness descends in these eyes. Don't you see?
  
 All my paths are snow-covered.
 When I open the window I see no sun, sunlight no longer enters this room.
 No dew gathers on the bars anymore, only tears collect.
 Summer comes, yet the emptiness doesn't lift,
 Only memories of the past return, again and again they keep returning...
 I see so many people walking in the street—young and old playing with colors,
 Life calls, life runs, only I sit here and keep watching.
 On that old path, in those left-behind days, so many dreams, so many imaginings...
 Do you remember, beloved?
 If life ends like this, what's the gain, tell me?
  
 Come back as prayer,
 Come back lifting the veil of silence.
 I know it's wrong, beloved, but people make mistakes—you did too.
 If you come, we'll cross the mountain of your mistakes together, laughing.
 If I have you, I'll learn to live today, pushing death away with a smile, beloved!
 Whatever else you do, just don't say 'farewell.'