Don't remind me how I messed it up
I just messed it up, I know this now
You know I know he knows of me
Now I'm alone, but no one sees
Jagged knives bid me to them
The same as I bid you to me
I knew not of my fabric
Or your so called plans elaborate
There were millions and millions of us
Who thought we could defeat fate
But now, I see, I am not my friend
I wasn't with myself at the start
And I won't be in the end
Right there, I saw who I was
Someone lost in the dark
Someone who had lost their mark
And fought without a sword
My allies see me unarmored now
Frown at me frown at me my love
You played my heart and not my lute
And with that there was no fruit
I painted in my mind back then
I knew it would become my destiny
To be lone and like my fault
The freshwater fish tastes not its salt
There were millions and millions of us
Who thought we could defeat fate
But now, I see, I am not my friend
I wasn't with myself at the start
And I won't be in the end
Right there, I saw who I was
Someone lost in the dark
Someone who had lost their mark
And fought without a sword
Twenty nights I cried
Twenty nights I cried
Spaces in time and spaces by me
The sound of hummingbird wings
Beats with me
A lion's roar gave me fear
Not strength
'Till my days be incomplete
And I knew, right there
That I was not myself, my friend
Not in the start and not in the end
Fountains of youth are not of water
And my spirits rest in their tower
You know I know he knows of me
Now I must find my thoughts you see
Killing, killing our fallacies
Ghosts of my own are not good to me
No, they deceive me you see
There were millions and millions of us
Who thought we could defeat fate
But now, I see, I am not my friend
I wasn't with myself at the start
And I won't be in the end
Right there, I saw who I was
Someone lost in the dark
Someone who had lost their mark
And fought without a sword
Twenty nights I cried
Twenty nights I cried
Trapped in my box of fears
The rivers of my flowing tears
And I was wept I mourned for them
The creatures knew not of themselves
And I did not find what I had sought
I only found the truths I caught
There were millions and millions of us
Who thought we could defeat fate
But now, I see, I am not my friend
I wasn't with myself at the start
And I won't be in the end
Right there, I saw who I was
Someone lost in the dark
Someone who had lost their mark
And fought without a sword
Twenty nights I cried
Twenty nights I cried
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem