If I Die

If I should die

Before we meet

Will you promise me

To be incomplete?

And if I fade

Before we love

Will you wait for me?

Wait just long enough?

If my heart should stop

And leave you behind

Will you follow me

Into a love sublime?

If my life should end

Before we are one

Will you preserve the love

That has just begun?

If I should go

From this world of ours

Burn the world for me

And lie awake for hours.