Have any of you, passers-by,
Had an old tooth that was an unceasing discomfort?
Or a pain in the side that never quite left you?
Or a malignant growth that grew with time?
So that even in profoundest slumber
There was shadowy consciousness or the phantom of thought
Of the tooth, the side, the growth?
Even so thwarted love, or defeated ambition,
Or a blunder in life which mixed your life
Hopelessly to the end,
Will, like a tooth, or a pain in the side,
Float through your dreams in the final sleep
Till perfect freedom from the earth-sphere
Comes to you as one who wakes
Healed and glad in the morning!
Eugenia Todd
Edgar Lee Masters
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Poem topics: I love you, freedom, never, perfect, sleep, time, earth, morning, glad, sphere, final, thought, slumber, life, love, pain, I miss you, Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
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