At a Window
by Carl Sandburg
Give me hunger,
O you gods that sit and give
The world its orders.
Give me hunger, pain and want,
Shut me out with shame and failure
From your doors of gold and fame,
Give me your shabbiest, weariest hunger!
But leave me a little love,
A voice to speak to me in the day end,
A hand to touch me in the dark room
Breaking the long loneliness.
In the dusk of day-shapes
Blurring the sunset,
One little wandering, western star
Thrust out from the changing shores of shadow.
Let me go to the window,
Watch there the day-shapes of dusk
And wait and know the coming
Of a little love.
Carl
Sandburg
conveys
the
idea
that
even
in
challenging
times,
a
little
kindness
and
companionship
can
sustain
the
human
spirit.
Carl
Sandburg
was
born
in
Galesburg,
Illinois,
on
January
6,
1878.
He
died
on
July
22,
1967,
in
Flat
Rock,
North
Carolina..