dorothy parker

• surprise
  
  my heart went fluttering with fear
  lest you should go, and leave me here
  to beat my breast and rock my head
  and stretch me sleepless on my bed.
  ah, clear they see and true they say
  that one shall weep, and one shall stray
  for such is love's unvarying law....
  i never thought, i never saw
  that i should be the first to go;
  how pleasant that it happened so!