Nacht

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Title: Nacht
Rating: U
Character(s): Rose
Pairing: Ten/Rose
Spoilers: None. Meant as post-Doomsday, but works (more-or-less, depending on your point of view) as post-Journey’s End.
Notes: This was inspired by this poem by converse_universe on Teaspoon. The quote at the beginning of the fic comes from Psalm 117 (in the Greek numbering), using the Jerusalem Bible translation. Nacht is German, and translates as “night”.
Summary: What do you do when your world has, literally, changed for ever?

I shall not die, but live

How could I forget you, when I’d said I’d stay for ever?
Though I’ll not see you again, and we’ll never be together.
Since the soul is but a window that opens to the sky,
I know you’ll not forget me, e’en though we said good-bye.

I’ll not let myself forget you, the one I gave my all;
Not you, not ever you, the one who’ll always have my soul.
I sit and while the days away, whilst trying not to cry,
And trying not to think of you or keep asking myself “why?”

So, since here is where I have to be – so full of endless night,
Because the man I gave my heart to is hidden from my sight –
I shall have the fantastic life that once you asked of me:
But this is not our end, I swear; how could it ever be?