Estrangement — Summary

The speaker addresses someone she has been separated from, and she admits that her own pride kept her from going to them. She imagines that after death, that pride will become the “burden” she keeps singing about—too late to undo. The second half turns toward the other person: once they are also buried, she asks whether they would still refuse to spend an hour with her “where daisies nod,” a gentle image for the grave or whatever comes after. The mood is regretful and tender, not angry. There is a quiet sadness in knowing that only death may end the distance between them, and the question at the end hangs unanswered, full of longing. It feels like a last, soft hope that love might outlast pride and the grave.