Don't Go Far Off

Don't go far off, not
even for a day,
because --
because -- I don't
know how to say it: a
day is long
and I will be waiting
for you, as in an
empty station
when the trains are
parked off
somewhere else,
asleep.
Don't leave me, even
for an hour, because
then the little drops
of anguish will all run
together,
the smoke that
roams looking for a
home will drift
into me, choking my
lost heart.
Oh, may your
silhouette never
dissolve on the beach;
may your eyelids
never flutter into the
empty distance.
Don't leave me for a
second, my dearest,
because in that
moment you'll have
gone so far
I'll wander mazily
over all the earth,
asking,
Will you come back?
Will you leave me
here, dying?

- adopted