AND DID YOU ?
by Aline Waites
AND DID YOU LIE AWAKE IN BED
WITH WAKING DREAMS TO FILL YOUR HEAD;
AND DID YOU FOOLISHLY RESOLVE
THAT YOU WOULD PUT AN END TO LOVE?
THEN DID YOU YEARN TO TOUCH MY HAIR
AND QUICKLY RISE AND PUT ON CLOTHES.
THEN – FEARING I WOULD NOT BE THERE
LIE BACK UPON YOUR BED AND DOZE?
THEN DID YOU WAKE UP WITH A START
TO SUFFOCATE AS IN A TOMB
AND WITH A WILDLY BEATING HEART
PACE ALL ABOUT YOUR LONELY ROOM?
AND DID YOU STAY AWAKE TILL MORN
AND DID YOU WATCH THE EARLY DAWN
AND CURSE YOURSELF FOR BEING SHY?
I THINK YOU DID – AND SO DID I
©Aline Waites.
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