Yesterday I Held Your Hand, On Reading Paul Dunbar Poem by Ravi Kopra

Yesterday I held you hand
and fondly pressed it
you looked into my eyes
you smiled, as if you liked it

But today you didn't retun my call
I sit alone wondering:
was I too fast too soon
or whether you liked me

Yesterday I walked with you
seeing sun set on the beach
Could a day be sweeter?
I saw you at night in dreams

Ah, today I am sad and sore
I can't place my arms around you
answer my call my new found love
I already miss you

I don't want to be alone
I don't feel like eating
I don't feel like going for a walk
Every moment I think of you

Yesterday I thought it was love
today it is all sorrow
call me soon (my dear love)
I can't wait till morrow

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Yesterday and To-morrow
Paul Laurence Dunbar

Yesterday I held your hand,
Reverently I pressed it,
And its gentle yieldingness
From my soul I blessed it.

But to-day I sit alone,
Sad and sore repining;
Must our gold forever know
Flames for the refining?

Yesterday I walked with you,
Could a day be sweeter?
Life was all a lyric song
Set to tricksy meter.

Ah, to-day is like a dirge, —
Place my arms around you,
Let me feel the same dear joy
As when first I found you.

Let me once retrace my steps,
From these roads unpleasant,
Let my heart and mind and soul
All ignore the present.

Yesterday the iron seared
And to-day means sorrow.
Pause, my soul, arise, arise,
Look where gleams the morrow.