I'm back, but this time, with poems. We all revere the dragons and such, and often viewed them from riders' points of view, to describe how significant they are. Now, let's try something different: from the dragons' points of view, on their riders. I believe it takes more than just a lot of good fish to charm a dragon into letting you ride it, so I dedicated this to all of Berk's (and How to Train Your Dragon's universe's) bonded large reptiles. It's time we honor the riders.
More author note at the bottom.
Disclaimer: I don't own How to Train Your Dragon. This cookie is very much satisfied with what she has.
Hard Love
Whenever you climb
Onto my back
Giving me the orders
For an aerial attack,
Do you understand,
The significance
Of the acceptance
And the silent trust?
No, I don't think so.
Humans are vain.
They are unobservant.
Yet they are the best.
One gentle word, and a dragon falls
Into complete slavery, never to be free.
But you are different.
I know you.
No gentle word, no soothing hands
Just straightforward truth
And stoic stubbornness.
You love in a different way,
But your love tends to stay.
An impression in my heart
That will never fade.
So this is how I honored
Your trust and your care.
Ride me, order me around,
Do whatever you must.
You understood my trust.
At least part of it.
But you did.
And as long as we are in the sky,
We are each other's heart.
I hate my poetic streaks, but they popped up anyway, and this is the first time I'm so obsessed with something that I actually wrote a poem for it. Oh, and did I tell you? I have several more like these, thought of at lunch, written at the beginning of math, and completed at the end of Math. That's one thing I love about rubbing my face with numbers: they give me wonderful inspiration about elsewhere topics.
~the Apprentice