Let it sleep

Posted on by Reena Saxena

It watched the world with knowing gaze,
Through centuries of change,
From kingdoms rise to empires fall,
In cycles, vast and strange.

now it sees a world transformed,
By gadgets, screens, and speed,
A pace too swift for ancient minds,
A world it cannot lead.

But now it feels a deep despair,
A sadness in its core,
For though it’s wise and strong and grand,
It can’t keep up anymore.

So let it sleep in fossil form,
A relic of the past,
A symbol of a time long gone,
When dragons’ reign was vast.

Legendary Creatures – dVerse

19 thoughts on “Let it sleep”

  7. If we let a dragon sleep, there’s always the chance it will wake up one day soon and we will see it, Reena. I love how your poem emphasises the ancientness of dragons, that they’ve been around and seen ‘centuries of change’. I can’t imagine how a dragon would feel about ‘gadgets, screens, and speed’.  I feel a bit like that dragon.

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