Poems (Jordan)/Causes
CAUSES
There is no absence but a failing love, Nor distance, save that made by wand'ring thought;And bridges built two lives between but prove Necessity hath been the one who wrought.
There is no presence with the heart afar, Nor nearness but the heart which understands;Beneath all moods which on the surface are Love holds two lives as one in priestly hands.
There is no blindness save a loss unknown— Because possession was unrealized;No heart can tread Earth's God-paved paths alone, Except it has some fellowship despised.
There are no silences, save when a word Against the heart hath laid its stilling sound;There is no sickness save of hope deferred, Nor death but from Despair's untended wound!