Natalie Golightly - Ballad about Love

When waters overwhelming in the Flood form
Came down into bounds of the banks
Behind the foam of the Scripture hard storm
Love crept then out quietly to blanks -
Dissolving in the air for a part-term,
This time to be a multitude in length.

Eccentrics that exist still on the land
Inhale with the whole breast this blend
Expecting neither prize nor condemnation, -
When breathing they by no special sign
All of a sudden will be caught in time
With such unregulated respiration.

Feelings float long in smooth or rough
Like a ship that furrows the seas -
Till you get to know that to love
Is the same as live as well as breathe.

And there will be wandering and travel:
The land of love is really great land!
And lovers being knights for testing ever
Should satisfy demands without end:
It will require distances to sever,
With peace ’n’ rest ’n’ sleep it will contend...

But crazed they don’t turn backward in dread -
So, readily agree to pay ahead
At any price - the life lay undefended
To save it thru intact, to keep from threat,
Invisible and magical that thread,
To be between them which was once extended.

Them the chosen winds refreshed and stuffed,
Knocking down, raising from deceased,
It’s because you’ve never been in love
That you’ve never lived and never breathed.

The many ones who in love having drowned
Would never answer - call them as you may, -
An idle talk and rumour keep them count,
This count being mixed with blood we say.
Let’s set the candles at their bedside down,
Of love unprecedented passed away...

And their spirits can in flowers stroll,
When their voices merged in time can fall,
Accordant with eternity’s first tone,
And meet again and a sigh release
On brittle bridges and on passages,
And narrow crossings of the Universe on.

I’d lay fields in bloom for lovers-dove -
Let them sing awake-asleep as if!
When I breathe - it does mean that I love!
When I love - it does mean that I live!