Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TOO LONG SILENCE, by EDITH K. OLSON


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TOO LONG SILENCE, by                    
First Line: Inoculated with renewed despair
Last Line: What will be left alive of me to know?
Subject(s): Silence


Inoculated with renewed despair,
Will, finally, my heart become immune
To days that ache with emptiness of you?
My ever-listening ears grow unaware
All sound at last, and so forget the tune
That beat in happy rhythm between us two?
And will my eyes grow blind to escape their tears,
Looking for you in vain down all the years?
Then, when the world is silent, when the light
Has ebbed from all the skies and left but night,
And when my heart is petrified by pain
Of too long silence, should you come again
And put your hand in mine, as long ago,
What will be left alive of me to know?





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