Slowe maintained a stoic sense of honor and duty through her public words and actions; but, privately, she also experienced doubt at times, which she expressed only to her close friends. In this May 1919 poem from Slowe to her long-time friend and presumed partner Mary P. Burrill, Slowe describes her perplexing state of mind.
Slowe was about 32 years of age at the time of this writing. The poem highlights the ways Slowe saw herself as a vulnerable woman bold enough to question herself and her life's path, as we all do within the sanctuary of loved ones.