The piece’s melody is taken from one of my operas, ‘killing time.’ The piece portrays sorrow, lament, loneliness, and grief. This piece was written in the middle of the epidemic when everything stopped and when it felt like the sadness might last forever. I reflected on that ‘lasting’ sadness and hoped it would be the ‘last’ sadness (blue). There are many conversations between oboe and piano, and melodic lines are intertwined.