Among the Nameless Stars
Among the Nameless Stars
And when I am no more remember me
Who loved you for the singing soul in you,
The days when Heaven seemed descended here,
A timeless moment, eternal true.
The body weakened faces soon its end
Though the happiness we knew seems now a dream,
Another life lived once within this frame
A doppelgänger spirit it would seem
Blind to fate and human destiny.
Perhaps the gods more rightly understand
That from the dark we enter into light
And then into the dark recede once more
To rest perhaps, to gather up in night
Our joys and sorrows like the yin and yang,
A chiaroscuro of delight and grief
Knowing that our failures spurred us on
And then depart grateful in belief.
So I must leave you beautiful and young
With endless inner regions to explore,
And the opening of doors that close on me.
A greater music destined from you to soar
From the incandescent fervour of your soul.
But in the aftermath of life’s brief hours
I shall love you still and still among the flowers
Springing from the earth that nourished me
That now is quickened as my soul flies free
Remember you as India, my love,
And high above the grave in some new dawn
I’ll honour you as each new day is born
And sing your name among the nameless stars.
