The Old Road to Paradise/Denial

by Margaret Widdemer

LOVE SONGS

DENIAL

It never would have hurt God
 To have made the world today
 So that your footsteps turned my way,
So that our two paths crossed—
 But I went wearily up and down
 The streets of the empty-painted town
And a whole day was lost!

Never your footsteps where mine trod,
 Never my words to you—
And it all would have been so simple for God,
 So slight a thing to do!