Tiger Mountain Peasant Song

If there is one thing I want right now.

It is only this.

Night.

Snow.

The two of us.

And a calm and steady silence.

No words.

No distraction.

I want simplicity and

I want you.

It's a mighty selfish thing to say,

But right now,

All I Want Is You.

All I want it

Is the crook of an arm

To make a nest in.

(I've been really fond of birds lately.)

And I think

That I am much too...

Starry-eyed and weak-kneed.

For you.

With the perfect blue eyes,

And the ridiculous laughter.

Your quietly stricken, bewildered voice.

Let us live on the sea together.

In a sailboat

On the waves.

And I know nothing about sailing,

And I'm not sure if you do or not,

But we can sit on the deck at night,

I venture,

And watch the stars move across sky.

Oh the impossibility of it all.

Something pretty

That I can cling to in a storm.

I love you,

And I just once,

Want to know what

A silence can be like

With you.

Where maybe, our hands could touch.

And you'll never know,

My distant dear one.

The words shall never pass my lips.

And our hands shall never touch.