Are you waiting there behind the door?  
Then come my book is closed and on the table.  
My glasses folded in their case are set aside  
The sheets are pulled neat and folded over.  
It's been a lovely afternoon. I sat  
Beneath the window and worked a pattern  
From colored bits I've collected through the years  
And kept tangled in a box. Now designed,  
It sits there on the chair, clean and neat and finished.  

Sometimes I've longed to go back to those arms  
But waited, but always came the sparrow's song  
And words from those I love here.  
Well, Come. I know you have been waiting  
But it's hard to leave their tears behind.  
To let them struggle alone. - Wait!  
Just let me say a prayer to keep them  
While they're here.  
     Come now. Ah yes I know you now.  
How well you look. How good I feel.

 
©1972 William H. Southwell
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