You See Me, You See Me Not

You see me, yet see me not

I am simply not here

I stare out of myself, out of my abashed, wide, cold eyes

My eye-lids flicker, I feel their close

I live not in this world

I feel closer to the souls

The beauty of this world had slipped me by

Now it brings cold tears to my eye

The crisp air cuts me in the street

I am bound by my feet

My feet hurry but I tread faster

I almost leave them behind

What can I do?

I can do nothing

My heart has grown

My love overflows

All I can do is shed my tears

To the snails and flowers before me

The night slips into the day into the night into day

I know not of it

It all rises as one before and after

I know not of yesterday

I live now

I can only see and feel now

I remember you not

I can feel your love, only those who purely love

A false love I can see, I see it clear

It shines over at me in a spotlight near

But a pure and true love too, I see it clear

It shines over at me in a spotlight near

But a pure and true love too,

I see in great diamond shapes which dazzle and glorify my soul

and pour into myself till it is whole

and then the joy is so ecstatic

I cry and cry like a babe.