Alive

I opened my arms,
and she came in,
and her beauty,
made me shiver deep inside,
everything of her,
so close to me,
and it hits me,
like a bolt,
right out of the sky ...

I opened my heart,
and she came in,
just to steal it away,
like a thief,
in the darkest night,
everything I owned,
my greatest treasure,
had gone so far,
out of sight ...

I should have been living in the dark,
and my world should have been felt apart,
I should have been dieing a thousand times,
the flicker of a distant memory in my mind ...

But ...

Alive,
I'm still alive,
through the fire,
through the rain,
nothing ever changes,
in my way to love and feel,
it's always the same ...

Alive,
I'm still alive,
through the emptyness,
throught all the pain,
nothing ever changes,
and my hope and wishes,
will bring me up again ...

Someday ...

(© Achim Tober)