Time

Time does not bring relief; you all have lied
Who told me time would ease me of my pain!
I miss him in the weeping of the rain;
I want him at the shrinking of the tide;
The old snows melt from every mountain-side,
And last year’s leaves are smoke in every lane;
But last year’s bitter loving must remain
Heaped on my heart, and my old thoughts abide.
There are a hundred places where I fear
To go - so with his memory they brim.
And entering with relief some quiet place
Where never fell his foot or shone his face
I say, ‘There is no memory of him here!’
And so stand stricken, so remembering him.

- Edna St Vincent Millay

6 Responses to “Time”

  1. graceyon 22 Jun 2007 at 3:36 pm

    I totally agree the above msg

  2. luvphobiaon 23 Jun 2007 at 1:11 pm

    Here is a wound that never will heal, I know,
    Being wrought not of a dearness and a death,
    But of a love turned ashes and the breath
    Gone out of beauty; never again will grow
    The grass on that scarred acre, though I sow
    Young seed there yearly and the sky bequeath
    Its friendly weathers down, far Underneath
    Shall be such bitterness of an old woe.
    That April should be shattered by a gust,
    That August should be levelled by a rain,
    I can endure, and that the lifted dust
    Of man should settle to the earth again;
    But that a dream can die, will be a thrust
    Between my ribs forever of hot pain.

  3. s t a r m | s ton 26 Jun 2007 at 11:35 am

    everyone’s so emo..

  4. graceyon 26 Jun 2007 at 2:55 pm

    luvphobia is always emo…cheer up girl

  5. love's a jokeon 01 Jul 2007 at 4:48 pm

    i like your post.

    it’s comforting cos it says exactly how i feel inside.

  6. s t a r m | s ton 04 Jul 2007 at 11:05 pm

    gracey - yeah, he is mr emo. just look at all his entries.. ha.
    love - i think many ppl can identify with this poem huh..

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