what do you go home to?

Pt1.

I am all alone in the house to-night; They would not have gone away had they known of the terrible, bloodless fight i have held with my heart to-day. With the old sweet love and the old fierce pain i have battled hour by hour; But the fates have willed that the strife is vain. Alone in the hour my thoughts have reign, and I yield myself to their power.

Yield myself to the old time charm of a dream of vanished bliss, the thrill of a voice, and the fold of an arm, and a red lip's lingering kiss. It all comes back like a flowing tide; That brief, but beautiful day. Though it oft is checked by the dam of pride, till the waters flow back to the other side, to-night it has broken away.

"Alone in the house from Yesterdays. By Ella Wheeler Wilcox 1916"