The Last Sun

Alice Kraatz / senior

The Last Sun

The saddest words I ever heard Were said with a cavalier smile, And though I thought I’d braved it all, Those words rang their knell for miles. Through thick and thin our arms were tight ‘Round the other’s gallant breast

Where just like so we’d ride our hope To where the sun sets in the west. Now in that fading, rosy light, I thought we’d found our rest, But the phoenix yearns to start anew Through the flame of the motherly nest. Its blazing beauty fills with awe

Base gazes from afar

Which stoke with harsh naïvity What reaps my heart of tar. Through many nights I now have wept, As in cold and dark I lie. I crave your tongue, however cruel, Though for an empty echo I cry. That tender grey is coming now, Yet my sun will ne’er rise true, For you, my dear, have left me with Those saddest words: I Love You.