Frank Witte - Channel Lullaby

I wish you sweetdreams and a soothing sleep,
stars high above you, a close watch they'll keep.
From a distance of many miles across the sea,
I will send you the best of thoughts I can find in me.
May they warm your heart and enrich your dream
just like moonlight can make eyes shimmer and gleam.

And I stretch out a hand into the dark of the night
wondering whether it is wrong to do so, or right.
For I expect no touch, no grip and no sweet skin,
I reach for your soul and your heart that feels like kin.
And believe me, I am really trying not to fool myself,
and to be truly honest while into my own guts I delve:

For I am not in search of a heart to steal,
and neither to attempt to break a holy seal,
nor to feign true love while I miserably squeal
about how in this world nothing seems real.

But I know you, my soulmate, at rest there,
across the waves and through a fogless air,
you breathe in peace and your mind at ease,
engulfed by a covertly refreshing sea breeze.

So I bid you farewell for this solitary night,
you're not out of my mind though out of sight.
I sense every move, every beat of your heart
despite the hundreds of miles that we are apart

Yet in none of these sensations read a claim,
for something like that I would never sustain,
because the lives to which these feelings pertain
could be some larger song's exquisite refrain.

And as the moonlight reveals your sweet lips,
between our hearts pass another thousand ships.
And even the best of thoughts I can find in me
only begin to measure this sea of feelings for thee.
And the stars high above, let them to this end testify
that from my heart to you comes this sincere lullaby.

Frank Witte

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