Broken winged swans

We, the broken winged ones

We, the ones thrown on cold

Floors of ice, mid the geese and the ducks

Who have searched for our reflections

In finding another of our kind,

Have only brought them under our wingspans 

So I know, for you told me so,

You did too, when your eyes they fell on me

You knew I was your's, around me you drew your arms

Yet pushed me away from you faraway

So that we could wait, for seasons and years to pass us by

Till both of us would from our woundings

Grow our wings all over again

For that flight we both dreamed of always

With a mate made but once for each

In this whole world searching one another

Hopelessly giving up, and yet not so-

We the broken winged ones

In one another our reflections we see

Now and we see eternity

How we have always known it to be

In finding one another finding that mate

For who we waited so patiently.

I, the teller of tales

The swan who wept tears into lakes

By that lake I wait for you, my beloved

Yet, my tears into songs have turned

Bringing many a goose and a drake

Around in their wake

But knowing my distant lover, I smile at them

And wait for he, who parted from me for an eternity.