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Dragon Watching
I'm throwing the pennies,
reserved for my thoughts,
into a fountain,
wishing it to erode this mountain of mutters
to only a guttural, sharp
utterance.
But who could divine
why I hide substance behind rhyme,
why I scamper away from your shine
to describe from vague distance
what is better off
being burned alive in?
Who could imagine
why I window-watch your dragons
rather than fly kites into their snouts,
to make them aware that somewhere
beneath their glistening scales
I listen for roars?
Why has it come to this?
And what will resultantly birth?
Shall I have been better served
caressing your gaze with my stare,
than reluctantly perched on a fringe
praying your periphery finds me there?
