Free to Fly

Thus let us live, my dear, and let us love.

I know it is without a second care

That we can look into the heart of life

And bring alive the beauty that we share.

To sun - to shine, to earth - to bloom, to us - to kiss.

We look into the galaxies and know:

We have been given universal bliss,

Beneath the stars that shimmer, clouds that glow.

When I behold the native, simple joy

Of river running through a summer meadow,

Of butterfly that floats, of little boy

That looks enchanted at a grass blade's shadow,

When in the plasma of the beaming sun

Hydrogen atoms merge and give out fire;

When stars quadrillion miles apart can shine as one

And of their incandescence never tire;

When days are bright and filled with gentle pain

And every gentleman looks gently at you,

When in your beauteous form I see the rain

And thank the stars beneath which I have met you,

When you look in my face and say "I love"

And then your lips give out a painful smile,

When there are many, many stars above

And we that love are here for a while,

When clouds are running over sunlit sky

And rain that drops from them does water flowers

I know but only this: I'm free to fly

Since we, that will to live, do love each other.