Gauguin Girl

©Vaughan Hoy

2014

First I saw you on a wall

Amongst other pictures short and tall

A godhead flower with a fuchsia heart

I couldn't let Tahiti keep us apart

I fell into your tranquiline gaze

A breeze only you can raise

Brown skin brown eyes 

Under translucent skies

My Gauguin girl

Maybe I waited too long

My Gauguin girl

How I miss your song


Living on love and wine and bread

Having nothing but you inside my head

Day by day and hour by hour

Ebony figure of a godhead flower


My Gauguin girl

Maybe I waited too long

My Gauguin girl

How I miss your song

But sadly now I know I must go

Murmurs of darkness come from below

The sky holds a place for your love in grace

A tropical flower I must leave this hour


My Gauguin girl

Maybe I waited too long

My Gauguin girl

How I miss your song