I Never Loved You More

I never loved you more, ma soeur

Than as I walked away from you that evening.

The forest swallowed me, the blue forest, ma soeur

The blue forest and above it pale stars in the west.

I did not laugh, not one little bit, ma soeur

As I playfully walked towards a dark fate –

While the faces behind me

Slowly paled in the evening of the blue forest.

Everything was grand that one night, ma soeur

Never thereafter and never before –

I admit it: I was left with nothing but the big birds

And their hungry cries in the dark evening sky.