The most important things are hidden Fairies are very shy Unicorns are real if unridden Not only birds can fly Magic comes in the dark unbidden Disbelieving folk are divorced From natural reality Their minds are frigid firm and forced Disdaining what they dare not see Should seagirls swim to such as these? I would not have them cast their pearls Nor model their agilities Before such swinish unworthies Who see the sea but not the girls! If you have never seen a fairy Never conclude they do not exist For their hiddenness is the very Reason they are able to persist Here where others are bigger than they They have to be able to fly away Just because you have never seen one Does not mean there has never been one Right under your nose as you sniffed a rose And that is why they have wings you know So as to be able to get up and go When the wild winds of a rose-sniffer blow +Steven Curtis Lance from the book, "Magic" Copyright MMXII