Poems (Dickinson)/I shall know why when time is over

by Emily Dickinson

For other versions of this work, see I shall know why—when Time is over—.

XXXIX.

I shall know why, when time is over,
And I have ceased to wonder why;
Christ will explain each separate anguish
In the fair schoolroom of the sky.

He will tell me what Peter promised,
And I, for wonder at his woe,
I shall forget the drop of anguish
That scalds me now, that scalds me now.