They Remind Me Too Much Of You

The speaker is heartbroken after a separation. Beautiful sights, sounds, and scenes of affection keep bringing back memories of a loved one, so the speaker wishes to avoid them. The feelings develop from wanting to escape these reminders to asking whether the pain will last forever, and finally to a direct plea for the person to return.

The “scent of flowers,” “sky of blue,” and “stars and moonlight” stand for ordinary forms of beauty and romance. The speaker wants them hidden or kept out of sight, not because they are unpleasant, but because they are linked to the lost relationship. To be “haunted” by memories means to be unable to stop thinking about them; the word makes remembrance sound like an unwanted presence that follows the speaker.

The ending adds a tender but uncertain note. The speaker suggests that if these lovely things do not hurt the other person, perhaps their love was not shared in the same way. Yet the final request imagines that the other person may also be reminded of the speaker. This could express hope for mutual longing, but it does not prove that the loved one feels the same.