The Dragon Atop the Mountain

I found a village at the base of a mountain

Its peak was so high it was hidden amongst the clouds

Someone greeted me with a wave then she told me

Go make your offering traveller to our Lord above

Else he fly down from his summit and bathe us all in fire

But with my hands clasped together I said

That on some nights I take a look up

I see an endless sky

And the moon shaped as a crescent

But I've never seen a Dragon

I stayed in that village until my life ended

The people made their offerings of tears, blood and sweat

While I made a house with plain wooden walls my home

I never stayed in the inn with its seven unlit lamps

But every day I spoke to a one eyed man who'd say

The Dragon is real as you or me

You'll know it when you open your heart

And when the Dragon came

I was the only one afraid 

The villagers though were relieved 

That their years of faith had been for something