GOD SAVE ME

Through a tale of forget-me-nots When age sought out life And the last timeline stood revealed

The fantasy of the human encounter with the dragon exemplifies this because we never ask one crucial question. What if, in reality, the dragon was not an object for us to consume?

And I will pray with you, asleep beneath a baptism of fireflies, our eyes drawn toward that soft dark hue Neither you nor I were thinking, Our shoes skipped toward the river’s edge, as though to make certain our childhood hearts still belonged there