Echo Chasing

You cling to the wilderness and plains like a shy ghost Where could you possibly be? Are you near or far? I can hear you, faintly, like beads of water slowly dripping out of a faucet, but can never quite reach you Why so elusive? Must you always play hide and seek? Or could you be somewhere in nature, trapped? I've actively searched for you in empty rooms And out in fields I sometimes walk among Yesterday, I came repeatedly clapping my hands And you clapped back to me each time Today, I did the same; thunderous silence! Are you buried in the dirt unable to make a sound? I've tenaciously tracked you through back countries choked with fog, only to end up in the middle of nowhere Has anyone ever found you out there in the wild? Maybe, just maybe, you're so lost you'll never be found