'The Longest Night' Poem by Marie Joyce B. Negapatan

'The Longest Night'

The sun bids goodnight
just before the moon's sad hello
Here I go swaying by
the tick of the pendulum
to what seem like forever
As your voice echoes
in every corner of my heart
And your memories cast
a lonely shadow to an empty seat
next to mine.
Written along the shooting stars
If only you could read my words
from where you are.
Staying up this late
with your arms wrap around me
Against the darkness and apathy
that surrounds me
Only to wake up
and stare blindly at the city lights.
A once beautiful song of silence
shared by togetherness
Now all I hear are lonely cries
of the crickets at night.

- 'Pissedoffchick' Negapatan