Return to Me

You rise like a wave in the ocean
and you fall gently back to the sea

Your anger roils off you in waves, then you are calm. I cannot ever fix your moods…you are a tempest, you are the placid water. And like the ocean, my tears are salty as they run down my cheek.

Now I want to know how to hold you
return to me
return to me

I am unsure of what to do now… I want to take you in my arms and soothe away your pain, but you turn your back to me, and I soothe the child burgeoning within me instead.

You shine like the moon over water
and you darken the sky when you leave

You are one of the brightest lights in the galaxy….so many peoples of so many races look to you as a guiding star, as the shimmering moonlight which illuminates their night skies. You are one of the greatest Jedi now, keeping the peace, maintaining the balance. And I know that's what you want….how important that is to you, but my world turns dark when I cannot see your face.


Now I want to know how to keep you
return to me
turn to me
return to me

But Anakin, how can we be together when you are yearning to be so free? How can we raise our child when you are heading down a path I cannot follow….when your moonlight is waning and I am afraid of this darkness in which you will surely leave me.

Everything I tell you has been spoken
and everything I say was said before

You've heard this all from me, you've heard this all from Obi-Wan. You've turned a deaf ear to our pleas…..and I am afraid time is running out.


But everything I feel is for the first time
and everything I feel, I feel for you

I cannot stop the love I have for you, no more than you can stop the moon from pulling the ocean's tides….and that is what we are, you and I. The moon and the ocean, inexorably linked for eternity...and forever so far apart. And what of our child? What of him? This void that now divides us threatens his very life as well. I shall give him a name neither of the night nor the water, but rather a name of hope. A name of Light…..Luke.

I know what it means to be lonely
and I know what it means to be free

Even as Queen, surrounded by courtiers, I often felt utterly alone... until you came back into my life all those years later. I have spent so much time unattached to anything but my politics, free of any personal tethers. But your love is a shackle I have no desire to break….and it weighs me down, like the son I carry for you now.


Now I want to know how to love you
return to me
return to me

How can I prove my love to you? How can we both have our desires? Please, don't turn away from me away with me, help me raise our child…..

I am here calling the wind
I am here calling your name
I am here calling you back
return to me
return to me

So I've come here, to a world with neither moon nor ocean. A world of fire, of dark light. I am calling you, Anakin…..can you hear me? I am calling you back to the Light, come with me love, return to me……