Der Leise Tod

See me, feel me

I would gladly take the bleeding skin
The painful physique in exchange
If this takes away the inner pain
The invisible suffering from me

It was not destiny
It was the beginning of the end
The loss of mental freedom
The moment I saw her

The moment the beginning of the end
The moment it happened
The moment my skin trembled
The moment I saw her
Time and space merged in her
At the same place in that moment
Here she was so close to touch
Here she was a hand's breadth away
But as close as her body was to me
So far she was from me
In her own world
In another universe
She who devoured my heart!

My thoughts my blood
My heart my everything all screamed
See me feel me recognize me now!
Here I am and I give myself to you!

And then she looks up
Our gazes meet
And hers continues to wander

The quiet death has found me
Infinitely far from her
A hand's breadth away from her
A hand's breadth away from her skin
A hand's breadth away from her