To visit you no longer

To visit you no longer

Did I resolve and swear.

Yet I go to you each evening,

For all strength and resolve have I lost.

I long to live no longer,

I long to perish instantly

And yet I also long to live

For you, with you, and never, never die.

Ah, speak, say only one word,

A single word, a clear one;

Give me life or death,

Only reveal your feelings to me - your true feelings!