Are you loving enough? There is some one dear, <br />Some one you hold as the dearest of all <br />In the holiest shrine of your heart. <br />Are you making it known? Is the truth of it clear <br />To the one you love? If death's quick call <br />Should suddenly tear you apart, <br />Leaving no time for a long farewell, <br />Would you feel you had nothing to tell--- <br />Nothing you wished you had said before <br />The closing of that dark door? <br /> <br />Are you loving enough? The swift years fly--- <br />Oh, faster and faster they hurry away, <br />And each one carries its dead. <br />The good deed left for the by and by, <br />The word to be uttered another day, <br />May never be done or said. <br />Let the love word sound in the listening ear, <br />Nor wait to speak it above a bier. <br />Oh the time for telling your love is brief, <br />But long, long, long is the time for grief. <br />Are you loving enough?<br /><br />Ella Wheeler Wilcox<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/are-you-loving-enough/
