Who is the graceful angel
    that reflects in the surface
    and dances on the waves of the silent forest waters
    and cries with the falling rain
    Who sings with the winds and tempests
    and whispers with the cascades
    but still gives a cool kiss
    of inspeakable pain

    What happened to this angel of beauty
    Who turns her head as the false hopes arise
    with the breeze whispering her forgotten name
    with the voice of him
    that with her lost heart lies

    Guinevere, Guinevere
    Why did she desire this other world
    on the other side
    She wished for her escape from longing
    to find her peace - a place to hide
    Did she know her loneliness
    until she saw it in the mirror of the forest's eyes
    as she chose her fate in grief
    and dressed herself in Death's disguise

    How could she have known that she would not
    be blessed with nature's sacred peace at last
    Bound to wander around the ruined pavilion of her abandoned life
    because of the eternal spell
    she in despair herself has cast

    Guinevere, Guinevere
    Forest Queen this was her fate
    and as the cool forest water embraced her
    She had decided, it was too late
    Never again could she return
    to the world that missed her so deeply
    The forest is filled with her longing song
    drowned in sorrow, sung so sweetly

    Dance with the waves, sweet Guinevere
    her chance is lost to go back to what she's been
    Cry with the falling rain in her despair,
    whisper and sing of choices she made
    but she will remain eternally Forest Queen

    ~I.G/Guinevere Dochas~

Guinevere (of the Lost Land)



*Inspired by the Painting ( "Guinevere" by
Jonathon Earl Bowser.Used with permission from the artist*

  1997 © Ingvild Gregersen


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