Posted on Wednesday, 21 February 2001

I sit here wondering now
Why did you fall for a fool
Only a smile you would allow
And that dear, is the magic tool

You raise you eyebrow here
And ask me how it was
For the truth you must hear
I answer simply because...

In her eyes I could be
As we ride on horseback
Almost anything she sees
Looking past things I lack

Without a word she can say
Patience with tenderness will
Gain the victory someday
But, you silently wait until

I can look past everything
To see what I yearn for
Is riding alongside me
Until I open that door

She closes her coffee eyes
To sit and patiently wait
Knowing that her silent lies
Could determine her only fate

But, I caught her quick glance
As we ride here happily
Mind you, only once by chance
Yet enough to show me

What I would desperately give
To grasp the look once again
What a foolish notion that I live!
There is no way I could win

To know my name is spoken
When I was innocent
By this single token
Leaving her I quickly went

How I do wish I could take
The foolishness that was said
Earning a sad longing ache
Recall your face when I fled

We met one time again
I was all confusion
Is loving you a sin?
Fate's tricks I keep losing
Never any time to win

Looking at two women now
Glancing at a gaffe and you
Comparisons I will allow
Coffee and dull eyes of blue

Nothing can ever now do
We are to walk away here
Except the thought of you
In my heart, never disappear

We are riding together today
I am reminded again by you
Of our first ride along the way
A smile of coffee not blue

Simply because I love
To feel your eyes on mine
Feeling that we are one
Knowing now, for all time

As you ride on horseback
Smiles are graciously given by you
Looking past things I lack
Elinor, I am in love with you.