The Second of Three

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For there is no greater truth so evident

Then that we are here, that we breathe.

Still, still, I cannot stop wondering

What is the point at all of draconity?

We are as stars and asteroids, we and man

But cannot mankind shine as brightly?

Are we here then to guide them on?

To show them things they could not see?

Being a dragon is like being a toad.

Really, listen now, and men are flies.

That is the common perception is it not?

Though, rarely, one manages not to die,

And chokes the frog and flutters away.

It survived, once, but dies all the same.

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