Symptoms of Love for voice and guitar

Some years ago I wrote a cycle of songs titled Songs from the Poets which, for various reasons, I didn't make very available. On recent request, I put together this video for the song "Symptoms of Love" on a poem by Robert Graves. I tried to make each song setting reflect something about the poem itself. In the case of this one, which is about the problems of love, my idea was to have a song in which the voice and the guitar, the two imagined lovers, never actually get together! In the whole song, they alternate phrases, never sounding together.

The photos were taken at the recording sessions. The music was recorded in the studio of Ken Basman in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.

I hope you enjoy the song. Here is the text:

Symptoms of Love

Love is universal migraine,

A bright stain on the vision

Blotting out reason.

Symptoms of true love

Are leanness, jealousy,

Laggard dawns;

Are omens and nightmares -

Listening for a knock,

Waiting for a sign:

For a touch of her fingers

In a darkened room,

For a searching look.

Take courage, lover!

Could you endure such pain

At any hand but hers?

I am still getting the hang of posting to YouTube, so I forgot to actually give this a name and now I don't know how to go back and edit it. But never mind! You can chastise me in the comments.