The years have come, gone, you've fallen short from my memories slowly, your portrait in my heart, blurred the arch of your shoulders, it glided away, your voice and I didn't go after you in the deeper and deeper forest of life.
Today I'm free to say your name, I don't tremble at your eyes anymore. Now I know you were one of many, that youth is foolish, oh but precious, still!
Don't think, beloved, it was all for nothing. Don't think it has vanished, oh don't believe it! Because you linger in it all, in everything lost. In my eternal bonds and my unspoken words, and all the greetings I never gave, and in all my letters torn to pieces, and all the wayward turning of my life... you dwell and reign forever, forever!