Serpent's Mirage

Song of the Desert
They have called me many things, yet when I see myself, I do not see them

I am no monster, for I have not harmed a gentle heart

I am not demon either, for no diety hath cursed me

''Yet why am I called these things? ''I ask,

Yet I look in the mirror, and can see

Why a person would recoil, at what is hidden by the cloth

But when I look, I do not see these things

''What do you see? ''my mind asks me.

I see a wanderer, her home as shifting as the sand,

An entertainer, who's music wooed both man and beast,

And a warrior, who bows down to none.

''What do you see? ''my mind asks a final time,

I see what the world made me, I reply

''A world as shifting as the desert sand. ''