Days before
I feel myself
Leaving this place
Where I was content
In the illuminating
Golden light.

How to pack the light
To take it with me?
Keep the warmth inside,
But let it go,
Let it go.

Give away the frying pan,
The pots of flowers on the terrace,
Share a last cherry pie,
Keep the memory of the people here
Close to my heart,
But let these things go,
Let them go.

I will throw my tattered clothes away,
Wear the clothes upon my back.
Somewhere I have lost
The silk robe
With the tiny, purple gentians
That you bought to cover me
From the cold.
After you,
Wearing it was never the same,
Keep the essence of the moments
But let it go.
Let it go.

Today I said goodbye to you
In all the places
I thought of you.
Take your spirit with me,
But leave your physical presence
In the most beautiful place I know,
For the love of you,
I have let you go,
Let you go

Sitting on the roof
In deepest night,
I reach beyond Saturn
To touch the brightest star,
Hold the starlight in my hand.
It does not shine for me alone.
Let it go back from where it came.
Let it go.

Tomorrow
I will shake the dust
From my worn-out shoes
And leave,
Free from the physical things
That get in the way.

As it is that I am,
Clothe my spirit
With memory,
Be on my way
To a place
I no longer need
To know.