avalyn

Unfortunately, the following isn't mine -- it was written in the 1910s by Mary Aldis. cut.rate.box included it in a song of theirs, which is how I found out about it. Three cheers for public domain works.

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When you come tonight
To our small room
You will look and listen
I shall not be there.

You will cry out your dismay
To the unheeding gods;
You will wait and look and listen
I shall not be there.

There is a part of you I love
More than your hands in mine at rest;
There is a part of you I love
More than your lips upon my breast.

There is a part of you I wound
Even in my caress;
There is a part of you withheld
I may not possess.

There is a part of you I hate
Your need of me
When you would be alone,
Alone and free.

When you come tonight
To our small room
You will look and listen
I shall not be there.