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Edward S. Silvera, "Disappointment" (1927)

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Disappointment

By Edward S. Silvera

There’s sorrow in your face,
Old woman,
I can plainly see
The pain beneath your wrinkled smile
That aches incessantly.

There’s a quiver in your speech,
Old man,
I clearly hear
A trembling in your feeble voice,
A trembling as from fear.

A daughter fallen by the way,
All fond hopes turned to lies,
One son in jail—
Another, dead,
How could you be elsewise?


Published in The Crisis, October 1927

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