Your words dropped into my heart like pebbles into a pool,
Rippling around my breast and leaving it melting cool.
Your kisses fell sharp on my flesh like dawn-dews from the limb,
Of a fruit-filled lemon tree when the day is young and dim.
But a silence vasty-deep, oh deeper than all these ties
Now, through the menacing miles, brooding between us lies.
And more than the songs I sing, I await your written word,
To stir my fluent blood as never your presence stirred.
Absence
Claude Mckay
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Poem topics: heart, never, silence, tree, fruit, deep, young, sharp, cool, Valentine's Day, dawn, Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
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