love and separation

it's not yet complete, your white wedding gown
and choir in our honor won't sing
yet time's rushing on, this most careless driver
and horses are ready to fling

if only the triplet don't lose its direction
the bell won't go quiet on the yoke
two girlfriends eternal, love and separation
without each other don't walk

we opened the gates ourselves, and ourselves
we harnessed this triplet of joy
and now something's shining right here before us
yet something has faded away

oh holiest science, to hear each other's passion
through wind so eternal and cruel
two pilgrims eternal, love and separation
will share themselves with us  in full

the longer we're living, the shorter the years
and sweeter the voices of friends
if only they still ring, those little yoke bells
and eyes to eyes still confess

on shore or at sea, in the sun or in blizzard
the wings of the swallows and crows
love and separation, two eternal roads
through my heart eternally flow