• Second after second.
    I watch you by the stream,
    sitting on the banks,
    in your deep ravine.

    Minute after minute.
    I watch your aging eyes,
    "What has love done for me?
    It has made me wise."

    Hour after hour,
    I listen to your tale.
    And now I understand
    how love has made you frail.

    And in a single year,
    I've seen how you were made.
    The sorrows you have suffered,
    and the wall of your facade.

    I cannot offer comfort.
    I guarantee you pain.
    But you will have my heart,
    that is what you gain.

    I will never reject you,
    as you first love cruelly did.
    Instead I will accept you,
    No need to be so timid.

    You will wait here you say?
    And so the time has come.
    No longer should you wait,
    for I want to be the one.

    And a man ignoring you?
    One precious as a jewel.
    You shine with only praise!
    Your father is a fool!

    "Won't it hurt this time?"
    How silly you should ask.
    To love you with my heart,
    is my one and only task.