But Not Forgotten
I think, no matter where you stray,
That I shall go with you a way.
Though you may wander sweeter lands,
You will not soon forget my hands,
Nor yet the way I held my head,
Nor all the tremulous things I said.
You still will see me, small and white
And smiling, in the secret night,
And feel my arms about you when
The day comes fluttering back again.
I think, no matter where you be,
You'll hold me in your memory
And keep my image, there without me,
By telling later loves about me.
Copyright Credit: Dorothy Parker, "But Not Forgotten" from Sunset Gun: Light Verse (New York: Boni & Liveright, Inc., 1928.) Public domain.
Source: Sunset Gun: Light Verse (Boni & Liveright, Inc., 1928)