Poems   Enchanted Tears   The daylight ebbed and night was born, A single soul walked alone, forlorn. Milk-white skin and face so fair, But she cried as she had always been there. Silver dew eyes and whispery tail, An ivory horn hiding a heart so frail. Her cry rang out as it had before, "Say never again, say never, no more." No one wanted to share her pain, They wouldn't have the chance to hurt her again. The lies of a forgotten life floated away, On an ocean which flowed to the dawn of day. The light of the moon, stars, sand and sky All shone in a tear asking only, "Why?" Her cry rang out as it fell to the floor, "Say never again, say never, no more."   About this poem   This poem was originally written as my answer to a challenge in a literary group I was a member of. The challenge was to write six lines of poetry to go before the lines,   "And so she walked the distant shore, A misplaced soul, a forgotten lore."   It originally started off with the image of a unicorn walking along the seashore, as the more observant of you will have guessed! However, I decided to re-write the ending of the verse to make the poem my own, and in due course it took on a new meaning. I didn't realise it at the time, but the more I read it, the more this poem seems to be an allegory of Mother Earth and her destruction at the hands of people - the melting of the ice caps, the freezing of the seas... I like to think that's what my poem is about anyway (sounds more intelligent than a poem about a unicorn!). I added the second verse and that made it even more clear to me.