Mirage

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

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