Ballad of the Red-Jeweled Dragon

by CKC

There once was a red-jeweled dragon

flying so high in the sky.

He looked down, saw a blue-jeweled dragon

            drifting along with the sea.

Swooping down, the red-jeweled dragon

            danced just above the other.

She glanced up and the blue-jeweled dragon

            laughed at the movements he made.

For the rest of the day,

these two danced and they played,

unaware of the sun.

As night fell down, a storm came.

The waves towered up to the sky.

He lost sight of the blue-jeweled dragon

            as a wave crashed above her.

Rising up, the red-jeweled dragon

            let out an anguished cry.

And he searched,

whirling ‘round in the sky.

And he searched,

diving down in the sea,

to the depths of the sea,

and he found nowhere

a trace.

And he searched through the night.

And he flew everywhere,

until he came to

a new place.

There was land.

On the shore was the blue-jeweled dragon,

            locked tightly in a gold cage.

Even now there’s a red-jeweled dragon

            circling above in the sky.