If
long long ago
I were a dragon
and you were a knight
(Knights are usually boys
so hence the stereotype)
We could have paired up
and gone
from town to town
me pretending
to want
to chomp
plump virgins
(olden day men looked
unhygienic
and beards are spikey)
and you could have pretended
to slay me
and save the day
and we'd have made a living that way
and got to see the country as well!
Maybe
I could even have flown us
over the sea
and we could have had romps
in countries
all over the world!
(What were Egyptians doing
in the middle ages?)
and then
when we are old and gray
(Or I'd be less green,
dragons age differently)
we'd get a little house somewhere
with a cave near by
(Not for me to live in
caves are cold
but we could store stuff in there
like treasure and meat and funny hats)
and we'd sit
and read together
or play olden day board games
(Maybe our own version of chess
the horses could be Kelpies
and the towers ogres
and the pawns tasty!)
and faded away quietly
without fuss
into legend.
(Until someone unearthed our bones
and decided you were a cave man
and I a dinosaur
and history got really awkward
but we'd not mind by then).
