A Changeling Child's Plea Poem by Leta Dungan

From as far back as I can recollect
I have never meshed with any other
I've tried to fit in but I can't quite connect
Not even with my mother or brother

I learned to be invisible or to just blend in
A wallflower of which none take notice
Hidden in plain sight like a chameleon
Or fading away like a shadow in a foggy mist

Still I dream of some far off day
when I may find my kith and kin
Others like me who laugh and play
Some distant land where I finally fit in

I'm not of this realm I sometimes fear
For I feel no kinship with the human race
Their indifference increases with each passing year
And they can't see beauty in front of their face

What quest brought me to this dreadful place?
Was I sent to learn a lesson? What did I need?
Was I banished here for some forgotten disgrace?
Gaia show me the way home; with heart and soul I plead!

This changeling child longs to go home
Where magick's not seen as a fearful thing
Long forgotten is the reason I did roam
away from that place where my soul did sing

Leta Dungan
Desert Witch
09/04/201
(revised 10/20/2014)