This is actually a song, but since I cannot read/write music, sing or even play an instrument, song writing is one of those wonderfully useless talents I have.

Below is the first part of this song minus the refrain...

Naiad

How can it be
that my heart's now alive?
I had thought it to die
long ago.

In the shadows I pondered
the course my life followed...
and where it now leads,
I don't know.

As I sit here alone
and your name haunts my mind,
I feel passion...
it burns at my soul.

And I sing out your name
as I long for your touch
and I know with one kiss,
I'll be whole.

(7/97), ©1997 - 1999, John J. Coughlin

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