Love Songs (1917)/Debt

by Sara Teasdale

For other versions of this work, see Debt (Teasdale).

 

DEBT

What do I owe to you
Who loved me deep and long?
You never gave my spirit wings
Or gave my heart a song.

But oh, to him I loved,
Who loved me not at all,
I owe the open gate
That led through heaven's wall.