Georgia Douglas Johnson, "What Need Have I For Memory?" (1918)
When not a single flower
Has bloomed within life's desert
For me, one little hour.
What need have I for memory
Whose burning eyes have met
The corse of unborn happiness
Winding the trail regret?
Published in The Heart of a Woman and Other Poems, 1918
Also published in Caroling Dusk, 1927