Dragon
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“More, more!” the Dragon demands
As the Dragon sits atop his towering treasure hoard
Of gold, jewels, and valuable things
It is safely contained in a secret vault
In an offshore Swiss Bank Account
“More, more!” the Dragon demands
And the Kingdoms of the world give him more
In tax breaks celebrated in public
And other favours quietly celebrated
delivered under the table, in private VIP lounges and boardrooms
The Dragon gets more, more
And yet
He does not have enough
“More, more!” the Dragon demands
The peasants ask why
“I give you jobs!” the Dragon replies
“I donate SOME of my gold…
To the trees,
to the poor,
to valuable cancer research,”
The peasants nod and agree,
“It’s charity, after all!
He doesn’t HAVE to give his gold away, but he does
How generous of this Dragon
Who sits atop his towering treasure hoard
Safely contained in a secret vault
In an offshore Swiss Bank Account!”
“Why, then?”
The peasants then realize,
“Why, then
Does my neighbour still not have enough to eat?
Why, then
Do I still fear the costs of being sick?”
“Because there is not enough to go around!”
The Dragon huffs,
Sitting atop his treasure hoard,
Of gold, jewels, and valuable things
And the peasants,
realizing that this is the way the world is,
that they are powerless to do anything about it
They nod and decide, “do not ask any more questions…”
“More, more!” the Dragon demands
As the Dragon sits atop his towering treasure hoard
There he lay with his gold
Lay there, he did forevermore
He became withered, forgotten, old
His inheritance went to his next of kin
Who crawled atop
His new towering treasure hoard
Which had grown from tax breaks given from his father’s charitable donations
And then the Dragon demanded more, more
Jean-Michel Vaillancourt
Jean-Michel Vaillancourt is a D&D fanatic, a video game enthusiast, a book-lover, and an eternal seeker for the art of storycraft in modern TV pop culture.
