Dragon Tears

The healing power of love and the joy found in the freedom to share tears...

Cursed with perfection's mirror,

I could only measure my failings,

Accomplishments piled to mountainous heights,

Like a dragon’s horded treasure.

My bed bringing the envious and thieving,

Snitching as they avoid the smoke and fire.

 

Oh, but I could fly!

A giant soaring beyond the blue horizon,

Only to land spent,

Dumping my treasure gained,

Bound to sulfurous complaints,

Unable to escape the gravity of my atmosphere.

 

I was not invincible.

Deep wounds oozed beneath hardened scales.

Feigning satisfaction behind the thinness of a false smile,

Chest puffed thick with the fullness of pride,

Sucking up years of toxic lore,

Lava burning tender, hidden depths.

 

She found me quite by accident.

Choosing to see the man within,

~ She loved ~ I was undone.

Armored shell transformed to golden sensitivity,

She bathed me in the cathartic tears of my transformation.

My perfection found at last ~ reflected in the mirror of her eyes ~

Author's Note

Not sure how this translates... be honest. I feel lost with my poetry of late.

Reviews

[Cryingkate]

David, No loss of direction found on this end.
it is very clear that the self image didn't have a very good reflection until the reflection was seen from the eyes of your love.
That's how it is. That's how Love works.....
I really admire the way you said it.
It has nice ripples in it's clear message.
I can relate very well to this.

[David Scott]

I have been very successful in life, but I never learned to love myself until... Thank you for your understanding and comment.

[Alisa Js]

Hello again,

This one to me, sounds like true love...

When you meet him or her, everything else falls away...as nothing else matters...

Two hearts, beating true..😍😍

[David Scott]

Thank you for the comment. If you only knew... ;)

[Alisa Js]

As a fellow romantic soul, I can only imagine😍. So happy you found your other half😍😃

[David Scott]

Had to let go... Hard thing to do.

[Alisa Js]

Oh! So sad and so sorry to hear this...

[David Scott]

I believe it was a blessing... We mess life up a lot. I'm learning to have gratitude, even when it seems painful... is painful... I'm accepting what is with a full embrace. Very hard to explain... No pity. No wallowing in sorrow anymore. How few ever even find a momentof pure oneness? I'm lucky. Anyhow, life is wayore complicated than I ever could have imagined. I'm sure I have more to learn than I could fathom.
Thank you again for your kind thoughts.

[Alisa Js]

You are very welcome. Sometimes, what seems like certain tragedy and the end of everything at the time, actually was the genesis for a new beginning in hindsight...

At least, that is what I have learned after enduring what I thought was for certain, unbearable heartbreak and pain.

Wishing you well.

Alisa ;-)

[Lyn Anderson]

I think it is beautiful in metaphor and imagery -- a little grandiose, but it suits the theme, and works well.

[David Scott]

Ha! Yes, I agree with "grandiose". :) I was feeling very dramatic this day. Sometimes we have grand battles with our emotions and sometimes we relish the grandest moments when those battle were only drums in the wind...
Thank you KL. It would take a dragon to get you to my page eh? Ha. :)

[Lyn Anderson]

What are you talking about? I read all the other newer ones already. Are there some others you would like me to peruse?

[David Scott]

I just kidding with you kitty cat. :) You rock!
I have not been very creative lately...
read moreI just kidding with you kitty cat. :) You rock!
I have not been very creative lately...
thank you very much for reading me poetry KL. You are always kind to me. I was trying to be funny.

[Lyn Anderson]

Oh, I thought I was slacking, but it was you.... just kidding! I have about 40 more poems up since last week, must have caught a bug or something, half of them aren't read, I churn em out too fast, so there's a downside to that too.:)

[David Scott]

Ha. Yes, I'm always projecting my faults... ;)
I get it when the poetry will not stop flowing.
I hear the music for sure, I'm just not in the mood to dance and I have too many chores covering the dance floor right now anyhow...
I enjoyed the humor tonight KL. Thank you for giving me a lighter heart.

[Lyn Anderson]

yeah, well, I owe it all to Dale and Frieda, and some chick named Becki (aka Barbie on the beach)

[Frieda P]

Time does have that effect, doesn't it...love the dragon metaphor, and the softness within, puff out your chest and fly baby ;)

My bed bringing the envious and thieving,
Snitching as they avoid the smoke and fire.

Epic lines...so you...love this Scott.

[David Scott]

Hey beautiful! Thanks lovely friend. I'll still always see a red head. ;)

[Frieda P]

You always did like fiery Scott. ;) Was my pleasure dragon.

[Tam Warink]

It's a great piece and I know it's supposed to be serious but I can't help but visualize a guy and gal dragon. The gal dragon is making big o'le moogly-googly-eyes at the guy dragon and you hear it say, "So, uh, you wanna go out and terrorize a village, grab a cow or something?"

[David Scott]

Ha! Thanks Tam.
Yeah, we flew out to the southfork river valley and found a few very plump milking goats to eat. Transylvania county is full of weirdos like us. The vampires hate us... They make sparkles when we breath fire on them. We usually fry a few on July 4th... If you are ever up our way, you should check it out...
;)

[Tam Warink]

Heh! You know, I just may take you up on that sometime, David. I've always wanted to see a vampire sparkle! :D

[Thomas Fitzgerald]

Like Narcissus before them, they fell and fell hard, a guided piece really, well done.

[David Scott]

Ha... I had not thought of this as narcissistic... but I can see why you might go there. More about feeling like a failure with too high and too low expectations. Then finding balance and truth in the eyes of one who loves with purity.
Thank you for your comments Tom.

[NeiL ArandA]

From the façade of tough scales a soft heart lies within. laid bare and uncovered. Then we found and seen what has been missing...

[David Scott]

Thank you Neil.
We are all tender beneath the armor we wear.
This "dragon" is humanity I think... At least a little of what I see of it within myself.

[Jack...]

We often walk around, shoudlers hung low based on what we see of ourselves in the mirror, wondering when it all happened, when that youth left without even a handshake...until another finds what we have hidden so deep beneath the skin, and once again what we see becomes what we always felt we were. Very nicely done David.

[David Scott]

I like your take on this Jack. I was not thinking about lost youth, but you make a great parallel to my thoughts with your review. You are spot on about finding something lost in the eyes of another though.
Thank you for reading and reviewing friend. I hope you are well. :)

[Joiedevivre]

such a beautiful ode. We distort ourselves so much in our own mirrors and our loads are so heavy at times that we need the kinder and often truer reflection of another to clear those foggy mists. This one has true heart, i love it.

[David Scott]

Thank you for reading Joie.
Yes, we can be hard on ourselves and also way too easy... Maybe it is just a good reality check to have another person give you feedback? Much like the reviews here on WC...
I do write my heart often.
Have a blessed day.