Dragon

Tonight I entered our

Little cob cottage

Warm earthen walls

Radiating calm a

Crowd of spirits and

Supporters of all kinds

Around me.

I stood and I looked

Down the stairs to the 

Basement, and I

Looked and I walked

To the threshold.

Down the dark, down

The dim, down the

Damp creaking

Staircase, down I

Walked to the sound,

Sound that called me.

Through basement and

Through tunnel, rich

Brown earth smelled

Passage, lit up as

Passed then again

Dark behind me.

I roamed and I

Wandered, well lost

Beneath the dark

Earth 'til I came

Upon a cavern and

A being.

Ancient dragon lay

There, upon his

Obligatory pile of

Gold coins and he

Regarded me with

Old and blazing eye.

And he spoke, he

Spoke through me,

Spoke inside and

Yet spoke to me, 

Told of a life 

Well live in the

Fearsome and

The fury.

Now he lay here

And he waited

For the one who

Comes before him

Sits and listens

And comes deep

Inside his stories.

This I listened, thus

He spake, for an 

Hour and forever

'Til he bade me

Stand before him

And I became him.

I saw all he told

Of, flexed great

Wings and claws

Of power, felt

The flames bellow

Deep within my gullet.

And we laughed,

Laughed the two

Of us, in rejoice

At freedom within us

And thus I strode, a man

Through ancient tunnels, 

Light around us.

Within my human body

Upon the walls,

Lay cast my shadow

Outstretched wings

Fearsome head

Trickling smoke upward

And I walked and we

Walked into sunshine

Into the great world.

And I know we

Live forever, thought

Tonight is but a

Glimmer in the

Ancient past and

Eternal future laid

Before us.

A man, a dragon

A fiery powerful

Being who does not

Will not yield

In his purpose.

To be alive amongst

The living, bring

Them strength

Bring them protection

To lend potent

Danger writ upon

The heavens.

So I'm here, so I

Remember, so I

Become in all my

Glory, be my 

Witness watch me

Soar watch me

Bear

    Thee