And an adolescent egotism

Made me feel you did not know me

Or comprehend the all that I was.

All this you divined.......

So it went. And when I left you and passed

To the world, the city—still I see you

With eyes averted, and feel your hand

Limp with sorrow—you could not speak.

You thought of what I might be, and where

Life would take me, and how it would end—