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 "> 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 "/>

Emotional Storm

© Shirley D. Cross-Taylor

Emotional Storm

Uploaded: May 16, 2007

Description

"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

Comments

Dominick M. Dimacale level-addict May 16, 2007

Great work here Shirley...Dominick #656210

Roxanne M. Bubar May 16, 2007

Wow, what emotion. #4287868

Shirley D. Cross-Taylor level-classic May 16, 2007

Thank you so very much, Dominick and Roxanne!:) #4287872

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