Dragon thoughts

[T'ley]

I wrote this about three years ago.


Dragon Thoughts

When I look up at that great darkness
that which is our night time sky,
I think, that in all that vastness
there was death raining down from the sky.

When I look up the finger rock
and see the red star's eye,
I think oh yes there was a time
when death rained from the sky.

For when the thread falls on this land
then many people cry,
"Hooray, hooray for Dragon kind,
we spite that great red eye."

The Dragons duck, the Dragons dive
to stop that thread and save our lives,
the dragons fly their types all five,
to sear the thread it's life to scythe.

Dragons Green and Dragons Blue
fly to save our pastures new,
Dragons Brown and Dragons Bronze
speed to flame the large thread throng.

Beautiful Queens with riders you,
fly below and catch the few,
the few thread who have managed to
get through that flame net Dragon hewed.

While this war up in the air
is fought twix Dragon and thread,
those people who, not in weyrs
stay in holds, as thus they led.

So this is how Pern through the years
has survived through all her fears,
she lived through and so can we
let us go, be free, be free.