There is no peace with you
Nor any rest!
Your presence is a torture to the brain.
Your words are barbed arrows to the breast.
Source: Enigma, in Poetry of the Negro, ed. Bontemps, 1949.
-- Jessie Redmon Fauset, (Apr 27 1882-1961), US poet, novelist; She was a significant figure of the Harlem Renaissance as literary editor of The Crisis; wrote four novels, including There Is Confusion.