The wall where the oceans meet
The wall as long as the eyes can see
A thousand miles in either direction
to stifle the lovers’ obsession
Oh, if we could only meet, if for a day or three
all I know is the pain of being separate from me
To the left, an expanse of the bluest complexion
To the right, a field of exuberant convection
A cobble wall of the surest construction
Guards leviathans, the perfect obstruction
Oh, if we could only see our fates for wanting to be free
to see the world through each others’ eyes, to live happily
Two souls, through love, became as one
without the either, neither could run
like clay in the hands of well-meant intention
they were separate in time to serve as a lesson
Oh, the curse of separation can only be explained as fire
your love has sustained me, so for hell I will not tire
The gods decreed that they are as equals
but living as one, they fell under no weak rule
They were separate, from body, from mind
banished to the corners, until the end of time
Oh, how lovely your cries from far ‘cross this ocean blue
if only I’d be free from this life, and I could finally be with you
How love is a gift we are still deciding
The meaning of life we still stand to finding
What lesson’s to be learned from this sorrowful tale
whether to love completely, and be damned to hell
Oh, the wall twixt the oceans blue separates me from you
but all that keeps us going is to love through and through
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