Woman Who Haunts My Eyes

While this is not in period, it is not really out of period either. I'm still working on a melody for it.


Woman Who Haunts My Eyes


Are you flame-haired or dark-eyed,
A creature of light,
Lithesome or winsome or wise?
Do you find where I wait out the hours of the night,
Woman who haunts my eyes?

Do you call me in languid words
Measured and slow?
Do you reach me with half-whispered sighs?
Do your tears fill the place where my memories go,
Woman who haunts my eyes?

I see round each corner a glimpse of your face
Just enough to draw me further in.
Yet I turn to find I’m alone in the place
Where you were, and I begin again.

I follow your echoes down un-remarked streets,
Though it’s useless, as I realize.
You dance in the corners my vision won’t reach,
Woman who haunts my eyes.

Woman who haunts my eyes.