Say something to me! I've waited so long-- <br />Waited and wondered in vain; <br />Only a sentence would fall like a song <br />Over this listening pain-- <br />Over a silence that glowers and frowns,-- <br />Even my pencil to-night <br />Slips in the dews of my sorrow and wounds <br />Each tender word that I write. <br /> <br />Say something to me--if only to tell <br />Me you remember the past; <br />Let the sweet words, like the notes of a bell, <br />Ring out my vigil at last. <br />O it were better, far better than this <br />Doubt and distrust in the breast,-- <br />For in the wine of a fanciful kiss <br />I could taste Heaven, and--rest. <br /> <br />Say something to me! I kneel and I plead, <br />In my wild need, for a word; <br />If my poor heart from this silence were freed, <br />I could soar up like a bird <br />In the glad morning, and twitter and sing, <br />Carol and warble and cry <br />Blithe as the lark as he cruises awing <br />Over the deeps of the sky.<br /><br />James Whitcomb Riley<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/say-something-to-me/
