If you fall asleep on my chest, feeling warm and quiet, There’ll be no sign in my eyes of a regretful tear; Assuming that, it shall be my best comfort, so dear.
If I can walk with you to the edge of the world, The arms of mine shall be your last pier, Wherefrom a renewed sail is set free, And no rope of death your rebirth to hinder.
If I can be with you until the final moment – OUR final moment, I shall breathe under your lifespan, to hold, to care, As we grow old together, in the last breath of eternal air …