The Light In Your Blue Eyes Poem by Allesandra Patti

I grieve that I may be the first to die,
To leave you here alone to see
The break of day, the setting of the sun.

Since one of us must stay behind to cry
Out in the night, to see love’s shadow flee
Through anguished dreams, let me be the one.

Better to depart than live the lie
Your life would be without your soul’s trustee:
So life without you – life without the sun

If one must ache forever, asking why
The price of loving preordained to be
So dear to pay, I should be the one.

This purchase – dear as life itself – is high
Heaven’s cursed and doubly blessed decree:
For one deprived of love – two undone!

Let it be I who grieves to say goodbye
To the light in your blue eyes breaking free...
Soaring toward the setting sun.