Tonight I Can Write... (2004) by Jeffrey Bernstein

Composed 2003 by Jeffrey Bernstein (ASCAP), commissioned by Christopher Eanes and the Blair Academy Singers. Performed October 2004 in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, by the Chorus of the Transylvanian State Philharmonic, Jeffrey Bernstein conducting. Music copyright © 2003 by Corduroy Fifths Music Publishing. Text by Pablo Neruda.

Tonight I can write the saddest lines,
The night is shattered,
And the blue stars shiver in the distance.
The night wind revolves in the sky and sings.
I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.

Tonight I can write the saddest songs,
Through nights like this one
I held her in my arms,
I kissed her again and again
Under the endless sky.
She loved me.

Tonight I can write the saddest lines,
Her voice, her bright body, her infinite eyes.
Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
She loved me.