Carpe Noctem [Tongan translation]

There is no future, there is no more past

No roots nor fruits, but momentary flowers,

Lie still, only lie still and night will last

Silent and dark, not for a space of hours,

But everlastingly. Let me forget

All but your perfume, every night but this.

The shame, the fruitless weeping, the regret.

Only lie still: this faint and quiet bliss

Shall flower upon the brink of sleep and spread

Till there is nothing left but you and I

Clasped in a timeless silence. But like one

Who, doomed to die, at morning will be dead,

I know, though night seem dateless, that the sky

must brighten soon before tomorrow's sun.