I was cleaning out my files and found this poem. I love it. It's really one of my favorites so I thought I'd share ...
The Want of You
The Want of you is like no other thing;
It smites my soul with sudden sickening;
It binds my being with a wreath of rue -
This want of you.
It flashes on me with the waking sun;
It creeps upon me when the day is done;
It hammers at my heart the long night through -
This want of you.
It sighs within me with the misting skies;
Oh, all the day within my heart it cries.
Old as your absence, yet each moment new -
This want of you.
Mad with demand and aching with despair,
It leaps within my heart and you are - where?
God has forgotten, or He never knew -
This want of you.
-Ivan Leonard Wright
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