Sapphic Figments

by Botched Lobotomy


36.

Weeping many tears, she left me and said,
“We suffer, darling, so they may go on.
You know how you were cared for.
And if you have forgotten, I would remind you:
...
When you are lonely, look up to the stars;
and I will look up, too.
And even in those different skies,
the moon may yet shine high and still,
and we shall be together.”