how many nights
have i not lain beside you?
how many Suns and Moons
have come and gone?
like my love
has come and gone.

time has shown its face
and taken my lover away.
the fire burns in the dark forest
beside the lake
in which the white swan
sings her name

her hair was born out of the Sun
her skin, came from the pale Moon.
the birds fly above my lover
they fly over the shape of our love.
i watch you in the dark
your golden womb glows
beneath your skin
so does your beating heart.
i rise in the starry sky
and take you by the hand.
i will make you
the mother of this land

i pick a flower
and smell its petals
and sweet perfume
the scent reminds me of you.  
but all these flowers and
all the pearls in the dark seas
could never equal your beauty.
where your feet tread,
beautiful plants spring to life.
i was born in the silvery darkness
you came out of a golden light