A/N: This is something short and sweet. Its a poem about Elspeth, and the general feeling of Ashling. I wrote it on Thanksgiving. My first Obernewtyn ficcie.

The quote is from Edgar Allen Poe, if you didn't figure it out from the EAP.

Dream Trails

"All that you see or seem is but a dream within a dream," EAP

We all walk the line,

Between waking and dreaming.

Some choose their own way,

But for some the path is already set.

In the test of time,

Not many survive.

Do we deny ourselves

And change who we are?

Can you truly change yourself

For a dream?

Can you change your soul

For love?

Does anyone change at all,

Or is it an illusion?

For some, the path wanders

Everywhere but home.

And when fate is predetermined,

Does choice ever have a meaning,

Or are we all alone?

A/N: The whole "illusion of change" partreminds me of Ariel... I guess that's who I was thinking about... and you can probably get the "change yourself for love"...Rushton & Elspeth 4 Ever!

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