Tonight

by Anna Kite, age 15
Anna Kite grew up in Italy. She's been writing poetry since she was five years old. She plays guitar and writes songs when she's not penning poems. She hopes to be a neuroscientist.

“Do to me this for it shall be no worse
Than what has’t been done,
Forgotten from thy lips
My name once sweetly sung”

Hast there e’er been a night filled with such pain?

Dost the setting of the sun bring suffering?

Come fill me up with bitter, cold poison

Come singe my hair and let it scorch my neck

Do to me this for it shall be no worse 

Than what has’t been done, 

Forgotten from thy lips

My name once sweetly sung 

How dareth thee mistake mine own love 

For something to be easily tossed hence

Cowards art those who cannot face the sunrise

And you were born with two closed eyes