(Instrumental – piano and violin)

A creek flows through the mountains

To meet the waiting stream

It knows its path is written

Like rivers chasing dreams

The wind caresses branches

And whispers in the pine

Affection without asking

A touch by grand design

So why not you and I

If rivers find the sea?

If mountain peaks can kiss the sky

Then let your heart touch me

If stars don’t walk alone

If waves can chase the shore

Then what is all this beauty for

If I am wanting more?

The sunlight warms the meadow

The moonlight lights the tide

The flowers bloom together

No need for them to hide

No songbird sings in silence

The sky holds every cry

If nature dares to love so free

Then why not you and I?

I don’t need the stars to fall

Nor heavens to break through

Just give me one quiet moment

To be alone with you

Let nature write our story

As gently as the rain

If all the world moves toward its love

Then don’t let us refrain

So why not you and I

If rivers find the sea?

If even mountains kiss the sky

Then come and be with me

Let sunlight meet the earth

Let waves embrace the shore

Don’t let this heart beat endlessly

For love you still ignore

(Instrumental – soft violin and fading piano)

Love’s Philosophy

by Percy Bysshe Shelley

The fountains mingle with the river

And the rivers with the ocean,

The winds of heaven mix forever

With a sweet emotion;

Nothing in the world is single;

All things by a law divine

In one another’s being mingle—

Why not I with thine?

See the mountains kiss high heaven

And the waves clasp one another;

No sister-flower would be forgiven

If it disdained its brother;

And the sunlight clasps the earth,

And the moonbeams kiss the sea:

What is all this sweet work worth

If thou kiss not me?