Upon Reflection

My head is gone I'm well away

Though you may see me I'm not here

Entranced in through a thoughtful door

I may be near but it's not clear

Who knows where one may vanish

When evidently still in view

Behind those transcendental curtains

Immersed where multi-shades imbue




Those places one cannot define

One way another something gives

A notion like a gentle hint

Is where your certain something lives

Based on: William Hughes Mearns

Yesterday upon the stair

I met a man who wasn’t there

He wasn’t there again today

I wish, I wish he’d go away

When I came home last night at three

The man was waiting there for me

But when I looked around the hall

I couldn’t see him there at all!

Go away, go away, don’t you come back any more!

Go away, go away, and please don’t slam the door

Last night I saw upon the stair

A little man who wasn’t there

He wasn’t there again today

Oh, how I wish he’d go away

"Antagonist" (1899) Wikipedia Link