DragonFly 2017 Tamara Thompson

DragonFly 2017 Tamara Thompson

I saw you one day, then the next and the rest,

The summer, that I sipped my wine.

A dragonfly who would be my best friend,

I knew you would come, to speak to me-

To set me free.

Flying free as a dragonfly,

As I lay in the sun, sipping my wine.

Whispering with your wings,

How the world can be as beautiful,

That there is a life out there,

For mine to capture, as I drank my wine.

I didn’t believe you at first,

The day you first arrived,

I listened to you though,

My only friend, a blue dragonfly.

Why are you so blue?

I asked you and you asked me,

You had a message for me,

To lift my head up to see,

How beautiful the world can be,

As you spoke to me.

So I sat that summer,

Waited for you to drop by,

Fly in from your flight,

“What fool was I- to speak to a dragonfly”,

Though how was I to know, beauty from a lie?

I was crazy to speak to you,

Though you asked me to,

The summer you chimed in,

The summer I let you in,

Let go of my wine, what misery was I?

And live a life, slipping on by.