Cross Roads

CAPTIVE-HEART

     Now that the day is done I am ready to greet you,
        Smiling, the way that I know you would have me
           smile;
     I will open the door, and will run down the walk
           to meet you,
        As if I had missed you, dear, for a weary while!
     I will listen, breathless, the while you tell of your
           toiling,
        All day long in the dust and the city's heat;
     And, dear, you will never know that my blood is
           boiling—
        Back of the smile that is calm and tenderly sweet.

     You will never know that the soul of me, dear, is
           flying,
        Out where the seagull dips in the ocean's foam;
     You will never know that something of me is dying,
        Every night as I smile and welcome you home.
     You will never know that my heart is soaring above
           you—
        You will be content with my mask of a smile—
           KNOWING I LOVE YOU!