Water Bearers Turned Dragons
if you got a leader
take me to 'em
the fire breathers spat
the heat
of the infant inferno
stilled the fist slammers
who retroactively abdicated
the cindered mess
they had lit
if you got a leader
take me to 'em
the suddenly sentient
coil of cumulus hissed
seized scholars
captured engineers
coyly coded scribbled curlicue
concealed their offerings
to the coveted google
re-entombed
carbon, copper, and nickel
in cryptic ledgers
charitable charlatans
constructed defences; battlements
hastily tallied single-lines of binary
figured through
straw man theories
interlaced wire
splattered propellant
among wicker-man pyres
with their peers
well-placed puppeteers
they ignited an inferno
with fear and subterfuge
force fed via syringe
the sabine virtuous
mourners for a song
a little applause
influence and admiration
upped the tattoo
tik-tok
on their coin tempo
arms waving smoke signals
spreading
sacrificial and incendiary
fan dancing
water-bearers
turned dragons wept
from a once cerulean sea
now ash, smoke, and tephra
an airborne eulogy
take me to your leaders
if you got 'em
Ivy and Lil'Bessy
a pearl of a lady's dame is Ivy
quiet as a chamber mouse
you wouldn't even know
she was there, hidden away
nurse maid within a breezy house
she works for a six pence and keep
tending an aged, ailing Lil'Bessy
read the list on gran mama's tablets
but lose your cerebellum
if you let out a peep
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For every task there is a master
For every master there is a time
The caterpillar knows when it is time
Time to relent to the dark
He does not rush
Spins the chrysalis not a moment too soon
With skill he was born to yield
Link to spoken word
The dark holds the promise of rebirth
From the chrysalis he emerges a butterfly
From crawling to flight
To the sky he was meant to inhabit
The butterfly does not fear his death
As death approaches so does the next generation
From sky to earth to rebirth
Forever serving life
There is no lasting death
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