I never thought at all before;
But mindlessness is such a bore
That soon enough I was betrayed
My nascent innocence and bade
Descend into ungiving sinks
Inhabited by two-faced finks.

In labyrinthine caverns dwelt
I many years- that sunless belt,
Where sinful virtue unopposed
Lets corruption go undeposed
And delusion run rampantly
Upon hidden reality.

Not that I knew of this while there
For such was brethren to the air-
Essential, yet going unseen;
Felt, but absent from each scene.

And much to my lament not I
Nor any with unaided eye
Could see to flee insanity
Alone.

             But as I ceased to be
The future I was born into,
There came abrupt a being new
With steely eyes and vicious teeth
And iron scales to hide beneath.

The dragon struck me like the shaft
Of silvered arrows fore and aft
Bedecked in cruel poison’s bath
And fired off from vengeful wrath.

She entered my dim tunnel’s view
An unannounced bright burst of hue,
The light from which was first I’d known
In years of living in the stone.

With such a dawning passing by,
That tangent of a life which I
Had been devoted to but mere
Moments before I ceased to hear,
For only dragon voice remained,
And I on dragon vision trained-
And she saved me from horrid fate
By supplanting her own estate.