Blinkende Lygter

In the long and dark night of childhood
Small blinking lights burn
Like traces left by memory,
While the heart freezes and flees.

Here shines your wild love
Lost through foggy nights,
And everything you loved and suffered since
Has limits that willpower sets.

The first sorrow has a fragile glow
Like a tear trembling in the room,
Only it will be close to your heart,
When all other sorrows have quieted.

High as a star on a spring night
Burns your childlike happiness,
You sought it since but only caught
In its flickering late summer shadow.

And someone comes close to you,
But can never fully understand you,
For you have placed your life under the light of the lanterns,
And no one shall reach you since.

Here shines your wild love
Lost through foggy nights,
And everything you loved and suffered since
Has limits that willpower sets.