*Dedicated to Saranghae. I’ll always love you.*
I
Little things get the better of me.
Important things retain no importance.
As life whiles away, so does my patience.
What luck to have loved,
Such love to have upheld.
Hold to your beliefs, for they will always hold true,
if only it be to you.
II
To each his own and in every right,
to cherish and to love, how love sees fit.
Through words or music,
how can I express, these things I feel?
Life through text,
emotions through music,
if only every novel had a soundtrack.
What am I say to or what am I to do?
Words come out as if with meaning
but without a clue as to my love for you.
To discern and to know, to say it’s just so,
What meaning is this?
This incessant banter:
Saranghae.
Wo ai ni.
I love you.
III
With all my heart and in every possible way,
to stay with you forever and always.
Physically desirous, yet overratedly so,
emotionally yours and mentally real.
Connected in life and tied in death,
if you were the one my heart would jump
with joy and glee as you’d always be with me,
to ground me to this lovely earth.
With you I will stay, to have and to hold.
What comfort doth this security hold,
but for you I’d care for,
to always do so and so have I always done.
I would ask if you would be mine,
but rather I ask “will you please stay?”
Begotten of your love I do not care so much,
as I love you so, and you will say as you have already said.
IV
I believe that I love you, I truly do.
But because I do I’ll let you go.
To hope someday you’ll come back to know,
that I found I love you so.
To let you go so you can live,
To trust in you that you’ll take care.
The things I’d do to make you happy,
What can I do to make you happy?
I’d die for you in a heartbeat,
or rather till my heart beat no more.
Maybe instead, I’d live in your stead,
so that you may rest in peace
and escape a life of suffering.
For life will end, now and then again.
So maybe life is that which we want to escape.
But to know you are safe and to live so carefree,
as long as I can I’ll balance your life.
To know what’s wrong and to make it right,
I’ll need you now and I’ll need you forever and always.
V
Always in balance, never out of sync.
Always in flux and never so static.
Such the cycle of this cynical life.
To see you happy, to see you sad,
emotions portrayed and always let out.
To hell with the bad and trust in the good.
Always invisible, yet so blatantly visible.
Would you know if I were gone?
Would you care if I weren’t near?
How bittersweet will this be?
For both you and for me.
When we look for each other,
in the eyes of others.
What you look for I know not of,
but do you know of what I look for?
Always loved and will I always look for you.
My mind says one, but my heart says two.
Without your love may my heart be in two.
With your company, may I make it through.
VI
How so will we live?
And how often will we let love?
To hope for our future,
and to our future I hail.
To me and to you,
to us both anew.
As time goes by,
so grows our bonds.
By the sands of time and eternity’s hands,
to meet again some distant day.
Along the crossroads of life and of love,
to live this life and this love we hold true.
VII
Always heartfelt and never false,
Heartbreak may scar, but cold hearts can kill.
Always so understanding and ever so full of life,
glad to have helped and always to have loved.
Love for you will be forever and always,
Love for you to be never-ending.
My life to love and love until death,
as you take my breath, day in and day out.
As life goes on, my heart grows old
as old as I get my life runs thin.
Never will I forget,
the girl who took my heart
and gave it back,
with thoughtful love and care.
-Saranghae
~/~ Lai ~/~
