Book of Poetry
Chapter Four

In roughly chronological order . . .

  • I've Been Looking For You
  • I Wish . . .
  • Clear Your Mind
  • Waiting To Tell Me
  • Your Addictions
  • Something You're Offering
  • Come From My Dreams
  • No Time
  • Change With the Days
  • You're Here

    I've Been Looking For You

    I've been looking for you
    but I cannot seem to find you
    After all I've been through
    is it asking too much?
    Yeah, I've been looking for you
    but I fear I'll never find you
    Seems even all I've been through
    doesn't add up to much

    I thought I found you once before
    Hiding behind that locked-tight door
    And I fell far to far and far too quick
    For a light far too bright, beyond my reach

    I've been looking for you
    but I cannot seem to find you
    After all I've been through
    is it asking too much?
    Yeah, I've been looking for you
    but I fear I'll never find you
    Seems even all I've been through
    doesn't add up to much

    I thought I found you once again
    Poetic words that warmed my heart
    But your words were not you, though they're all I knew
    And no matter my wish, it would not be true

    I've been looking for you
    but I cannot seem to find you
    After all I've been through
    is it asking too much?
    Yeah, I've been looking for you
    but I fear I'll never find you
    Seems even all I've been through
    doesn't add up to much

    I thought I found you yet again
    Born of my dreams- or so it seemed
    And I fell far too far and far too quick
    And you faded away, beyond my reach

    I've been looking for you
    but I cannot seem to find you
    After all I've been through
    is it asking too much?
    Yeah, I've been looking for you
    but I fear I'll never find you
    Seems even all I've been through
    doesn't add up to much

    I thought I found you- then again
    I thought it was you once, and I knew
    And we fell far to far and far too quick
    But they stole you away, beyond my reach

    And I'm wondering now who you really are
    Who will you be? Are you looking for me?
    'Cause I'm tired and weak from searching so hard
    And I pray you will find me in time

    I Wish . . .

    To live again the times of past
    To change the times of my regrets
    To know then all that I now know
    I wish . . .

    Clear Your Mind

    Clear your mind of anxious worry
    Time will pass no quicker if you don't
    Free your heart of ancient hatred
    So your soul may soar in peace

    Waiting To Tell Me

    So you were waiting to tell me
    Gee, now when would that be?
    When's the best time to say:
    "Hey, by the way, I'm breaking up with you
    And oh, since I don't care,
    This appartment that we share?
    Well you gotta be out of here by June."

    Suddenly all I want is
    You and me together
    So strangely I thought that we
    Would part quietly when the time came

    Your Addictions

    Your addictions' the extinction of the cells that dwell within your dreams
    You cannot see, nor do agree, with anything taught to you by me

    Come From My Dreams

    Come from my dreams, are you
    Here for me to see or be? I
    Run from my dreams, since I'm
    In this nightmare, slowly dying

    Still will my dreams haunt me
    More than now and how my vow will
    Change with my dreams, now you've
    Made your way into my daydreams

    Under my
    Reason I'd
    Rather be with
    You

    And here you are
    Don't you see?
    Aren't you here for
    Me to be?
    Come from my dreams
    Or so it seems
    Never to
    Tether, to
    Rather to
    Ever to
    Remain
    Always
    Seeking

    Torn from my dreams, and you're
    Here for me to see and be. If
    Only my dreams would let
    Me be free of all I see. We
    All fall from dreams, even
    Still until we will fullfill our
    Dangerous dreams and
    Enter into our own daydreams

    Something You're Offering

    I feel there's
    something you're offering
    In your eyes
    something that can't be seen
    By their eyes
    Something only for me to see

    I know you're
    trying to hide it
    But I am
    trying to find it, but
    I think
    trying is hiding and lying

    I told you
    something that you could hate
    You told me
    that's something that you don't hate, but
    You told her
    that's something that you would hate to be
    And you're trying to change me

    But I see
    more than you think I see
    And I see
    all that you are hiding
    And do you see
    That I am here waiting for you
    To make the first move

    You do - or do you?
    It's all to confusing
    I would if I could
    But I don't think you'd let me
    You did and then hid
    But maybe you didn't
    I wish you could be more clear

    Now you're gone
    I'll never see you again
    I thought I would
    But I guess we were never friends
    I thought we were
    Strange how things always end
    Guess I was fooled once again

    No Time

    There really is no time
    Left inside my own sad mind
    There really is no time
    Left for me to let you see
    The ways that you are blind

    Change With the Days

    You change with the days
    Yet you're always the same
    In my mind. I find I'm
    Growing closer to you.
    Here and then there
    And then you dissappear
    In thin air, and there I
    Am still waiting for you

    Here it seems you've always been
    And yet I know that in
    Time I will love you
    I wish that it were not so
    Because of course I know
    That you can't love me

    Still, now that you finally know
    It seems that now you show
    Some true desire
    Shared, and then into thin air
    Desire leave me here
    Alone and waiting

    You change with the days
    Yet you're always the same
    In my mind. I find I'm
    Growing closer to you.
    Here and then there
    And the you dissappear
    In thin air, and there I
    Am still waiting for you

    Strange, I thought I'd never find
    Out here the one that I
    Am always seeking
    Here, then you swim to that beach
    And far beyond my reach
    Into a daydream
    You once said that you loved me
    And thought that maybe we
    Were meant to be
    You may not remember me
    I still think maybe we
    Are meant to be

    You're Here

    There you have always been
    Love from a friend from afar
    Ever wondering when
    You will open the door and love me more

    Sometimes I wonder if you even care at all
    You never seem to be around when I want you
    But then when I'm really down you always reappear
    You're here and then all else fades away

    You never had much time
    Even when I first met you
    Then you moved far and I'm
    Worrying when I will see you until

    Sometimes I wonder if you even care at all
    You never seem to be around when I want you
    But then when I'm really down you always reappear
    You're here and then all else fades away

    Now you have dissappeared
    You warned me before you left
    Yet it was more than I feared
    I now wonder where you have vanished to . . .

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