Midnight Sun

What does the sun do at night

But sit in silence, in sorrow, 

Waiting for her blinding sight

Seen by those, all those, tomorrow?


But tomorrow seems too far to bear,

She weeps, she grieves, without alation.

With graying golden hairs, she cries with a deep despair:

“No way out, the tribulation!”


Why does the sun, the wise Divine,

Think mortal thoughts in a fixate 

Of only now? For now, future lacks define,

Intensely blinded by her own damned fate.


In her darkness, she is no longer

The goddess who shines, but becomes

Me and you and he and she. With a hunger

For happiness impulsively driving, destroying all her doldrums.


But soon her eye will raise the sky 

And lonely thoughts begin to fade.

For endless shadow-boxing now at rest,

Now the morning birds can nest.

- Lauren Glogoff (BU ‘24)