Our Last Night Together

Photo by Johannes Plenio @jplenio

Our Last Night Together

It’s our last night together. Ever!

One mother and one father,

lying in the womb together,

conspiring to live forever.

Only forty-eight orbits around the sun:

all the memories of your spirit. Too young!

Just like the first, here at the last.

It’s our last night together.

Tomorrow is not our land,

here and now is, one more time.

My tears wet, yours already dry.

As you move off into the night,

I cannot follow. I can only stand still

on the shore as you sail into

the sea of the afterlife.

We wave and we say goodbye.

- By Michael Stolt