Based on the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, The Inner Light
I feel lost and solitary, only one against the night.
I think of you as stars streak past and fade beyond my sight,
But what I grieve for never was, except inside my heart.
Now I've returned to what I left, I'm separate, apart.
Kayman's life will live in me
An inner light, an inner light.
What would you have me tell them, that I lived, I loved and lost?
How can I share my knowledge, obtained at such a cost?
If only they had lived it too, if only they could see,
The joys we shared, the passing years, and what it meant to me.
Our way of life, I still can see
The inner light, the inner light.
I know the soil, the plants, the rocks, the quality of light.
I know your smile, your touch, your scent, the memory is bright.
Did you ever know, Eileen, your love, it made me whole?
That the life I lived with you filled spaces in my soul?
My love for you will always be
An inner light, an inner light.
This flute is my reminder of another time and place,
People facing what life gives with courage, strength and grace.
I'll teach them of the beauty, I will try to make them see.
And as I live, you will not die, your mem'ries live in me.
All your lives will live in me,
Our way of life, I still can see,
My love for you will always be
The inner light . . . an inner light.

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