Chaos Rules

narrative verse

 

 

Chaos Rules

 

The Dragoness last of her race.

 Lies somnolent beneath the sun,

 there will be none to take her place.

 Remembering her youth long gone.

 

Three thousand years of life she’s seen.

 The Dragons are a long lived race.

She can recall when there had been

a world of peace, a perfect place.

 

 

But upstart monkeys, protomen.

A warlike and fast breeding race

 which quickly and grew again.

Usurped the Dragons living space.

 

They forced the Dragons to withdraw

 from where they’d lived for centuries.

But still the men demanded more

of the fertile territories.

 

Though Dragons were more powerful.

 By nature peaceably inclined

did not resist as usual

and this encouraged humankind.

 

To spread across each continent

 and keep the Dragons in retreat.

Their numbers grew incontinent.

The Dragon race could not compete.

 

The Dragons rule brought to a close

 The age of peace on earth was gone

 simply because the dragons chose

 not to resist .Should they have done?

 

That is the question in her mind

 as she waits patiently to die.

The last survivor of her kind

She asks but she gets no reply.

 

The human race now rules supreme.

Rather a doubtful victory

A night mare fashioned from a dream

 for man is mans worst enemy.

 

6-Oct-08

 

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Reviews

[Alex Annesty]

Admirable sentiments, beautifully put. The number of dragons banished from this so-called civilized world doesn't bear thinking about.

I really like the lines:
"But upstart monkeys, protomen.
A warlike and fast breeding race"

[Nancy Lee Shrader]

I have always been a fan of books and movies about dragons and though terrifying; I believed them to be passive and gentle in nature. From very early childhood, I felt a close connection with dragons, especially one that mind brought to life. A sadness fell over me at these words from the very beginning to end.



The Dragoness last of her race.
Lies somnolent beneath the sun,
there will be none to take her place.
Remembering her youth long gone.




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That is the question in her mind
as she waits patiently to die.
The last survivor of her kind
She asks but she gets no reply.



Thank you for bringing back the wishing of childhood and my imaginary dragon Mimzy who flew over my house by night, protecting me from harm.