Chapter 4: The Waters I Traveled - Sylvan

Vastness around me, waves and endless sea

Swim hastily, scared by unknown deeps …

Wake up …

The thing under me hides beneath my feet

A secret disease — is it fake or real?

Awake on a salving shore … The surges have ceased from me

It seems that a saving stream somehow has brought me here …

Feel someone is holding me … Wipes traces of wet away

And while all my fears dry out, it dawns on me: you’re here …

And here you calm me, safe me, guide me with your light

To wave the shadows, nightmares and my sweat aside …

You listen so patiently … To tales you don’t believe

And that’s why you’re so incredibly valuable to me …

Soak up my moaning, brave and brighten it up with your light

Endure my selfish, stories … right by my side, right by my side …

Light up the sea — little beacon, shine for me!

Define the stream that eventually leads me here!

Relume the deep — fill the ocean with your gleam, please, please …

Light up …

Wait and rest now, peacefully … take a breath now …

Still and silent, waveless sea … for a while not deep …

Calm and sound, in harmony — fade it out and leave …

Dim horizon, dormant wind — the storm is hiding … it hides from me …

Something is rising now … I start to feel it …

Still subtle but not so far away …

Below the surface of my life … but you taught me to face it …

You made me aware of my own line … little beacon, you’re my guide …

That’s why I care, why I feel, why you shine night and day

That’s why I’m gracious that your light chases my secret fear away …

Chase it away …

Rain above me — brave the stormy sea

Swim vigorously — stand the obscure deeps

The thing under me tries to grap my feet

Lights, finally … now I’m out of reach!

The moment I’ll wake up — forever I will stay

And the waters I traveled will be million miles away …

Miles away