No Place for Dragons

This world’s no place for dragons
Not any more
We’ve killed the magic and the mystery
Not with our science and technology
Zoology or theology
But with our violence and degradation

This world’s no place for magical creatures

Whose wingspan
is only exceeded by their capacity to expand our imaginations

Their iridescent scales can’t gleam in the smoggy light of day

Their curving trunks can’t writhe around trunks in deforested lands
Their undulating whiskers can’t ripple the surface of garbage-filled seas
Their fiery exhalations can’t compete with the scorching of this world

There be dragons

But only in my mind
This world’s no place for dragons