Though Life Has Saddened Your Blue Eyes

Music: Goldberg Variations: Variation 21.
By Johann Sebastian Bach.
Performed by Kimiko Ishizaka at the Free Music Archive
under a Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication license.

Though life has saddened your blue eyes
And pain has nestled near your heart,
You've given me your happiness
As my poor life has come apart.

I never thought that I could watch
My child suffer helplessly,
But you have two that you must watch:
My daughter Tiffani and me.

It's bad enough that this divorce
Has ripped out all my happy years.
But what has my poor daughter done
To inundate her life with tears?

I try to have the strength and faith
To hope, to love, and to forgive.
And then I watch my daughter weep
And wonder why we all must live.

I cannot think what I would do
If I could not this torment share.
I did not ask, but still you came.
I needed you, and you were there.

Sometimes I fear I should have tried
To keep you from this dreadful night.
Yet I would die without your love;
Its beauty is my only light.