Mercedes Lackey - Golden Eyes lyrics

A shadow in the bright bazaar A glimpse of eyes where none should shine A glimpse of eyes translucent gold And silted against the sun This the clue, and this the sign That sets him on his quarry's line But she had seen him in a dream And now she's on the run Faster than a thought she flees And seeks the jungle's sheltering trees But he is steady on her track And half a breath behind She tastes his scent upon the breeze And looking past her shoulder sees He treads upon her shadow She fears the hunters mind So now she summons all her wit And every trick she knows to hide To make him loose the twisting track To throw him off her trail In woman form in leopard hide Folding leaping side to side She doubles back along her track And sees her efforts fail He stands before her, dark and grim Her terror now she can't suppress He blocks the only pathway out And will not let her by Her gold flanks heaving in distress Half woman and half leopardess To eye the side, no where to hide It's time to fight or die But what is this, to her amaze The man has thrown his gun away And quietly draws near her now A smile upon his face Before she thinks to run or stay His body blurs like soften clay Before her eyes to her surprise A leopard in his place [Interlude] The hunter they have sought in vain And now the talk of the bazaar- Is of the canny leopard pair A sight none will forget Who once has seen them near or far In sunlight or where shadows are And side-by-side they hunt and hide No one has caught them yet