Goodbye world
I look up and see once again
The beauty of the night sky -
The stars, the galaxy -
Going on infinitely.
The stars are slowly winking out,
Disappearing without a sound,
Without a trace,
Until there is only one -
The one that inhabits the day sky,
The only one left to give me life.
Suddenly,
Without warning,
It blinks out of existence too -
Leaving me in complete and utter darkness.
© R. A. W. S. Clarke
My Opa was a bit of a poet - we received many amusing birthday cards from him with much poetic licence on rhyming and whatnot - he re-wrote this one after he read it. Here is his version after minimal re-editing on my behalf.
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