River At Night

Chapter 1 - many hopes:
Lights glimmer at the surface
Of a dark and muddy stream
Every night, when i return
I see this river with a name
They call it as if it was one
But it is many as it flows
They wash away my doubts and fears
Many tears run to the ocean.

When thoughts are drowning
In the black flows
When waves take away
My dreams and mares
Silently they're drifting
With the river at night
Some will sink and some will swim
But in the end
Panta rhei.

Chapter 2 - memory:
I remember the day we stood
At the banks of a summer lake
And you told me in naivity
"imagine how all of it ends here"
Who would have thought
That you would end there too
Since that lovely afternoon
I have never seen water by light
Down in your wet temple
You will rest forevermore
Around you life goes on
Panta rhei, though you are gone.

When thoughts are drowning
In the black flows
When waves take away
My dreams and mares
Silently they're drifting
With the river at night
Some will sink and some will swim
But in the end
Panta rhei.

Chapter 3 - spring to ocean:
Tear by tear and night by night
I form a river by myself
I am the spring
The world is my ocean
Not a tiny island
Is left in the flood
Everywhere i see my face
A reflection in a pond
Makes me want to drown in it
To flee from it's sight.

Chapter 4
Panta rhei, panta rhei, panta rhei
It flows, it flows, it flows
To one single point
One damn point
It starts with me, it is me
Everywhere i am
The rivers am i
The sea is mine
I run from me to myself.