Not for your eyes for friend Orlando

storypoem

 

 

Not for your eyes.

 

 

Though they’ve retreated in the face

of the quick breeding human race.

Dragons did and do exist

that’s why the legends still persist.

 

They live in secret hideaways

where they have lived since olden days

The gentle dragons think it wise

to stay concealed from human eyes.

 

The meddling monkey mind of man

which interferes because it can.

Must be convinced without a doubt

the race of dragons has died out.

 

But sometimes on a summer night

some man will see by pale moonlight.

The dragons dancing in the skies

then he is forced to realise

 

The old wives tales are in fact true.

 contrary to the general view.

 The favoured few allowed to see

 the dragons fly all tend to be.

 

Men who prefer to live alone

 far from the cities they have known

 in the naïve days of their youth.

Before they learned to seek the truth.

 

Which can’t be found amidst the crowd

 who broadcast random thought aloud.

They’ve learnt by harsh experience

 to be alone is their defence.

 

Against the hypocrites and cheats

who throng the cities crowded streets.

They find that isolation

 improves their concentration.

 

They see no reason to conform

to what’s regarded as the norm.

By lesser men too blind to see

 their world view is a fallacy.

 

 Such men have learnt to recognise

the key to understanding lies.

In weighing up the evidence.

Divorcing truth from false pretence.

 

So when they see the dragons fly

across the moonlit evening skies.

They can accept and not deny

what they have seen with their own eyes.

 

But see no reason to impose

Their views on other men who close

 their minds so that they cannot see.

That dragons are not fantasy.

 

I fi should choose to say I’ve seen

 the dragons fly, you’d think I mean

The pretty coloured dragonflies

to see them would be no surprise

 

Until you see with your own eyes

the dragons dancing in the skies

You won’ believe that they still do

Because you’re not entitled to

 

14-Jul-08

 

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