The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/Despair

by Paul Laurence Dunbar

For works with similar titles, see Despair.

DESPAIR

Let me close the eyes of my soul
  That I may not see
What stands between thee and me.

Let me shut the ears of my heart
  That I may not hear
A voice that drowns yours, my dear.

Let me cut the cords of my life,
  Of my desolate being,
Since cursed is my hearing and seeing.