A Dragon's Tail

A Dragon’s Tail

Once upon a broken Knight
A shattered maiden fell
Wings clipped cold and hard midflight
A lowly mission belle
A squire fell on foreign shores
To a beast he did not choose
A maiden left with nothing more
To balance what she’d lose
The dragon never at her gate
No presence of its claws
Her page suffered a soldier’s fate
A martyr for the cause
For kings and queens, reigning elite
A vengeful dragon sounds
In darkened night, midst rain and sleet
The dragon circles round
Wing beats on a broken night
Echo dark and long
Winging wide and out of sight
This shattered maiden’s song