Further Than I

I yearned to dream, afraid to wake

Fleeing a land far across the sea

My heart and soul I did forsake

Now there is naught left of me

Never more would I lose nor gain

I closed my eyes and did see

In a foreign land doomed to remain

A stranger was I and would ever be

I traversed a mountain to escape the roar

Roamed through fields to null the pain

Walked amongst trees to ignore the war

I could not hope nor could I feign

My heart remained behind a door

My spirit hid well beneath scar

Only in sleep did I truly soar

To dream of my home lands afar

I raised my eyes unto the sky

The weight upon my soul it did mar

And prepared myself to say goodbye

Then glimpsed her in a falling star

I turned away to forget

and did divert my eye

But alas I found I had to repent

For she had come much further than I