Good-Bye Mr Dragonfly
I was relaxing sitting in my sunroom,
and I was marveling at the sky
When I noticed stuck to my window screen
there was an interesting big old dragonfly
So, I gently and quietly opened up my window
in hopes that I could set him free
But he just stayed there with his wings at rest
and he hummed a verse to me
He hummed-
"I can see you there Mr. Human,
you're so thoughtful and you're so kind
But I would wish to watch the sunset, my friend
that is, of course, if you wouldn't mind"
So, I nodded and got a spoon of water
And I broke off a crumb of my tasty bread
Then I put it onto my clean white windowsill
just right before I had gone to bed
When I woke up early in the morning
The cute dragonfly had flown free
But beside the empty spoon of water...
there was a note, and it read-
"Thank you" ...to me!
The sincere note had made me smile
And the whole experience was pretty cool
Especially when I went for a dip
And found the dragonfly swimming in my pool
It swam onto a floating green leaf
and it flapped its wings in my direction
That's when I knew that it and I
We had some kind of friend connection!
Then I opened up my wet wrinkled hand
and my friend hopped onto my palm
and it sat there while a cloud passed by
And the water was still and calm
But when the sun was shining
And there was a rainbow in the sky
The dragonfly had flapped his wings
And it waved and hummed... "Good-bye"
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