Once I lay under the grass so cool
Not a sound nor a feeling disturbed me
Where rays could not find me
Neither sun nor moon, there, where I burrowed,
Why don't you let me sleep?
I rested deeply, passing the time
So far from hunger, danger and sorrow
And I began to imagine myself safe
So I lay in a wonderful comforting dress of earth
and dried my tears
So it happened that I forgot what I once was
Only the one from which I never recovered
doesn't leave my dreams
And the longing lives evermore under the cool grass
to wander between the stars
I fell from the skies, from the sea of night lights
Yes, I fell so deeply and I fell so hard
and I plunged through the darkness
And this was forever and forever and still longer ago
But I carry the stars in my heart
There I lay shattered, so naked and so bare
So lifeless under the green moss
and my wounds healed
So I lay bedded in your tender lap
forever bound with you
I dreamed of the sky in the night-black refuge
A word never escaped my lips
And yet I begged for forgiveness
And all animals fled the lonely horrifying place
Heard my soul screaming there
Yet I don't warn the stars in the moon-bright night
that call to me with all their power
I don't know where they came from
So I woke in ice-blue, cutting moonlight
and they gave me a name
They washed me, bound flowers in my hair
I tasted the drink that they offered me
The sweet, purple drink
They rubbed my body with oil, which they laid out
and carried with them like a corpse
They left me intoxicated with her alone
who had never felt a stranger's hand
And I learned new desire
after that I touched neither her nor the stars again
I will always pine for her
They tore me away, they put a
crown upon my head for adornment, hunted me like an animal
They hounded me eventually to death
They hit and hacked and buried everything
that was left of me in the ground
Once I lay under the grass so cool
Not a sound nor a feeling disturbed me
Where rays could not find me
Neither sun nor moon, there, where I burrowed,
Why don't you let me sleep?