Say Something To Me

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