Love Doesn’t Need Ten Thousand Lifetimes

Moonlight by the window

Frost along the hall

You keep all the old days

Folded in your heart

That bowl of forgetting

Feels too cold, too light

How could it erase

The glow still in your eyes

Red beans by the letters

Incense fading slow

Tea has lost its warmth now

But your sorrow still won’t go

You are scared to turn back

Scared to look behind

As if all this deep love

Would be left with nowhere to hide

Some loves are not meant

To live on pain alone

Some names don’t need forever

To still be carried on

Love doesn’t need

Ten thousand lifetimes

It doesn’t need longing

Carved into your heart

You once loved so deeply

You once loved so true

That little light you carry

Is already lasting through

Love doesn’t need

Ten thousand lifetimes

It doesn’t need heaven

To answer back to you

If he once lit a fire

In your darkest night

Letting go

Will not erase

That light

There you stand at midnight

Wind across your clothes

Holding to a broken dream

Refusing to let go

But this human road is

Longer than it seems

How can you keep walking

Only carrying old grief

I know it isn’t pride now

I know it isn’t vain

You are only scared that love

Will fade to something plain

Scared that when spring comes back

And flowers start to bloom

You and him will only be

A line the past once knew

The deepest kind of love

Is not self-destruction

If two hearts once found each other

Why spend life in sorrow’s river

Love doesn’t need

Ten thousand lifetimes

It doesn’t need longing

Carved into your heart

You once loved so deeply

You once loved so true

That little light you carry

Is already lasting through

Love doesn’t need

Ten thousand lifetimes

It doesn’t need heaven

To answer back to you

If he once lit a fire

In your darkest night

Letting go

Will not erase

That light

If there is another lifetime

If you meet again someday

You don’t have to wear

All this frost upon your face

If he knows you, he will know you

Not by all your hidden scars

But by the kindness in your eyes

By the softness of your heart

And if one day

You finally let the moonlight go

And place his name back gently

Somewhere safe inside your soul

That is not betrayal

That is not goodbye

It is only giving love

Back its truest form in time

Love doesn’t need

Ten thousand lifetimes

It doesn’t need the long night

To mourn for you

You once loved so deeply

You once loved so true

And this small flame within you

No one else can hide from view

Love doesn’t need

Ten thousand lifetimes

It doesn’t need to trap you

Inside your own heart too

If one day your longing

Turns into moonlight

Let it fall

So softly

On you

You don’t have to drink

That bowl of forgetting

You don’t have to carry pain

Till your hair turns white

Just remember

Someone once

Walked into your life

And there was a love

That did not need forever

To still be called

Bright

月落西窗

霜侵舊廊

你把往事

收進心上

那一碗湯

太薄太涼

怎能洗去

你眼底的光

紅豆還在

舊信紙旁

香灰未冷

茶也微涼

你怕回頭

你怕回望

此生深情

再無處安放

有些深情

不靠痛生長

有些名字

不必不忘

也還難忘

愛不必

萬世不忘

不必把相思

刻在心上

你曾真心

愛過一場

這一點光

已夠漫長

愛不必

萬世不忘

不必向天

討個回響

若他曾照亮

你黑夜微光

放手

也不會熄滅

那道光

你立橋頭

風滿衣裳

風滿衣裳

寧守殘夢

不肯相忘

可這人間

路太漫長

若只背舊傷

怎過風霜

我知你啊

不是倔強

只是怕愛

淡成尋常

怕到最後

花又開放

你與他

只剩半行

真正深情

不是自我埋葬

若真相照

何必餘生

盡作寒江

愛不必

萬世不忘

不必把相思

刻在心上

你曾真心

愛過一場

這一點光

已夠漫長

愛不必

萬世不忘

不必向天

討個回響

若他曾照亮

你黑夜微光

放手

也不會熄滅

那道光

若有來生

若真重逢

你也不必

滿身風霜

他若認得你

未必憑舊傷

只憑你眼底

那點溫良

若有一日

你肯放下月光

把名字

輕輕收進心房

那不是辜負

不是相忘

只是把愛

還它本來模樣

愛不必

萬世不忘

不必讓長夜

替你守喪

你曾真心

愛過一場

這一點火

誰也不能藏

愛不必

萬世不忘

不必困住

自己心房

若思念最後

化作月光

就讓它

安靜落在

你心上

你不必飲

那一碗湯

也不必守痛

到鬢雪成霜

只要記得

曾有一人

來過你生命

一場

一場

曾有一愛

不必永恆

也自有

天長