I'll be the Moon

Watching like a mermaid watches the shore, crying

The tide echoing her yearning

In the cloudless sky of the early morning

I couldn’t bring myself to go

To heed daylight's call, the final bell tolls

I feel your fingers slip out of my hold

I couldn’t bring myself to leave

Tethered to you by gravity, watching you in all your glory

You’re burning, I’m yearning, wishing, relentlessly

For more than a few seconds, every morning and night

An eclipse alone is not enough to satisfy

Sharing our stolen dance, in the push and pull of the tides

In sunrise and in sunset, with the stars as our witness

I still won’t go, even if the gods demand it

Our distance only makes my heart grow fonder

I can’t bear it any longer, but I can’t change nature

Anymore, than I can stop loving you

So, if you’ll be the sun, I’ll be the moon