Country Girl

Country girl will you come about?

Your mood is sullen and shy

The sun has burnt your skin to bronze

As your hair falls softly

In swirls of gold about your tears

Your lips are broken and ugly

Looking as dry as withered fruit

Telling me they are not for kissing

As then the silence takes us

Along an isolating route

City lights will not entice you

My dusty car will not take you there

Market streets cannot invite you

They are dismissed without a care

Country girl now you are talking

But all your words are for the horse

Although I speak, you do not listen

Ears of corn seem to hear me more

As they giggle in the evening breeze

The hands of my watch are bending

As they strain to reach the coming night

Time is working fast against me

As my futile pleas fall like leaves

Unheard in the dying light

Busy streets are not appealing

They are full of polluted air

Strangers walk them in silence

With nothing they wish to share

Your silver pail is full to overflowing

As water slaps about your feet

Waves of coolness begin to filter

In the restless and uneasy wind

While the moon and twilight meet

Country girl will you change your mind?

You are looking away so thoughtfully

The darkness is now all around you

As the storm rears its head

With an eye like yours that cannot see

Perhaps your landscape is too uneven

For my well heeled shoes