Author's note: This is a poem I wrote explaining the mystical origin behind Dragonwalkers in Dragonwalker, one of my GEAR Universe stories.
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A woman sighs.
Tragedy has just struck.
A baby is born,
and a village out of luck.
Two dragons lurk beneath a cave.
One, old and wise.
The other, young and brave.
The baby becomes an entrancing maiden.
All who behold her sight are smitten.
The young immortal now laden,
Love has now bitten.
Out to the world he goes
Dressed as common as can be,
In human clothes.
The young dancing girl is carefree,
while he stays with a family that brews tea.
Young dragon wanders into the woods one day,
catches a glimpse of a marquis.
To his apparent dismay,
his love in the arms of a man with a noble family tree.
Bursting from the shadows,
his wrath in true form fills the night air.
She begs clemency as the China Rose,
her and the noble being an engaged pair.
The beast sees no reason even from this Rose.
Informed, the old dragon dies of despair.
The dragon has been enthralled,
she must choose him or a bloodbath.
A young sorceress called,
must appease his fiery wrath.
He mocks the sorceress' pose,
tears through the village on a warpath.
The noble lad laden with love
learns the true meaning of sacrifice.
Leaving a lady as a dove,
and a monster with a heart of ice.
On her last legs,
the sorceress casts a powerful curse.
Village inhabitants stuck between dragon and man,
Sweet release of Death is all that they beg.
Dragon makes an evil clan,
the good sorceress forms hers.
China Rose marks a watery grave,
the heavens look down with pity.
Prediction carried out,
a tragedy indeed struck that village.
Dragonwalkers must tread about,
upholding a cursed image.
Light and Dark eternally at war,
who of these are we to abhor?
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Vocab notes: China Rose is a flower, also a courtesy name given to the beautiful noble girl.
Dove was an analogy for her bringing peace, and opposing conflict.
Author's note: The music video did not influence my story at all, but if you think of the general as the marquis and the Juliet as the beauty, then well the song fits then. (I just found it and thought it would accompany this meager poem well.) The young dragon is a villain as he forces a woman to love him... that's not good.
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