Dry and parched I've crossed
this desert waste
Whilst all the while your
beauty I have chased.
Elusive you have always been
- so near and yet so far
Yet I clung to snaring you,
my dream being so bizarre!
One minute here, one minute there
- always just out of reach
Oh! come to me! Please stand still,
this I did beseech!
You tempted me with beauty rare
  -  in fact you were such a tease!
All the while I travelled on,
my dreams I hoped you'd please.
Now my time is finished here I
realise you are just a blue mirage.
My heart, my love, these barren wastes
- your playground camouflage

2008