scattered like lost words

"She generally gave herself very good advice (though she very seldom followed it)" Alice in Wonderland -Lewis Carroll
"Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise." - Lewis Carroll
She's his little schemer.
When begged for an answer, she keeps quiet,
When silence is needed, she laughs and makes jokes
Causing him all sorts of razzle-dazzle.
She upsets equilibrium,
She looks down on conceptualizing,
She dances weird steps around him
Like a willful little wood demon.
She's his little schemer.
What he dreams of, she won't give,
What he never expected, she compels him to take.
Though drawn by tenderness, she avoids expression it,
Though she hasn't gotten any, she's already afraid of
losing it.
A whirlpool herself,
She creates various whirlpools.
Nobody understands her magic.
She's his little schemer.
Beckoned, she won't come; waved away, she stays;
Seeming close, she's far off; he'd give up, but can't.
One time she seems like an iceberg,
Another time like a fiery ocean,
Sometimes she's a wordless song.
While listening, he thinks it may be true or false;
After tasting, he can't tell whether it's sweet or hot.
His, his.
She's his little schemer.
-Shu Ting