There's a fairy nymph dancing through my life;
Playing hide-and-seek in my mind's mists.
I glimpse her as she twirls, elusively, through my gardens.
Teasingly she giggles -- laughing with her eyes;
Her knowing visage so wise, so serene.
I know, if I could only meet her,
She would bring peace.

Once, in youth, I saw her clearly,
Without nature's veil -
A hurried glance into the soul's reflecting pool
Before I turned away from her murky depths,
Afraid of being intranced by her mystery;
Rejecting the lure.

Faintly, I hear the echo of the piper's flute
Wrapping its way through the evegreens;
Tempting me into the enchantment of the forest;
The melody beckons me to come...

Now, longingly, I search my ravaged landscapes-
Barren planes and rugged emotion-capped peaks.
Still, she eludes me.
Leaving me
Desperate
To meet
The fairy nymph dancing through my life.