Rivers to the Sea (Collection)/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 little open gate
That led thru heaven's wall.