Our Camelot

We are born incomplete, in fragmented pieces

Adam without Eve and Yin without Yang

The torment of this consumes and drives us

Wholeness becomes the grail of our being

Our lives are romantic mis-steps in series

We try and try, endlessly beseeching Fate

To find that special missing puzzle piece

To make us whole and complete as our mate

We find ways to fuel our hope after each fall

Imagining ourselves as knights and princesses

Dreaming of the glass slipper and the fancy ball

Hoping reality can emerge from mere wishes

We fantasize about the magic of celtic Camelot

Of tender Cinderella and romantic Prince Charming

Of beautiful Guinevere and dashing Sir Lancelot

Of the American Camelot of Jack and Jacqueline

That these fairy tale couples were flights of fantasy

Matters not to us, for somewhere inside deep down

Etched into a secret place in our souls indelibly

Is that castle, that dream, that story book of our own

Then suddenly, Fate's magic transforms the fantasy

As I discover at the very end of my soul's rainbow

An unending August blossoming from gray January

With the haunting arrival of a girl imagined years ago

As if by a wave of the druid Merlin's magic wand

The missing puzzle pieces are interlocked together

The fairy tale of Camelot springs to life

As I put the glass slipper on my Cinderella

Oh, I know there is no golden tiara on your tresses

And armed I am not with a sword like Excalibur

But in my heart you are the loveliest of princesses

In my soul I am your knight in the shiniest armor

So today, in a storied castle in an enchanted land

Where magic and romance were always somehow real

In this home of my ancestors, the source of my life

As we sit in opulence by this beautiful lake

Itself bedazzled by a priceless jewel of a woman

All that remains to make our fairy tale real

To solve the riddle of our incompleteness

To create our own miracle of Camelot

Lasting not the thousand years of lore

But the infinite timelessness of soul mates

For us to ride off into the sunset

In a life lived happily ever after

Is for you to say yes to one question....

Princess Audrey, will you marry me?