IF I RETURN:

If I return to this earth one day,

I ask you Lord & do humbly pray,

Let me return for a very short time,

And not as long as this life of mine.

 

If I return, let it be as small flower,

As dewdrop on rose, lasting an hour,

Firefly for a day or moth of the moon,

Snowdrop melting with coming of June.

 

If I return, let it be as day turns to night,

As seasons fly, changing darkness to light,

As swift as a kiss & a passing soft breeze,

As fleeting as foam upon crest of blue seas.

 

If I return to this earth, be it not to live long,

Not to see sadness, only to hear sweet song,

Not to see man bestowing his cruelty & death,

Return me as whisper, upon lover´s sweet breath.