If Dreigiau was a book, this poem would be written on notepaper and slipped in just before the title page.
By: Agla
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Hey, you
You there-
listen.
This is a warning.
Don’t turn the page
until you’ve heard.
I’m warning you
cause if you didn’t know
cause if you went in unprepared
the danger would take you.
There are dangers in the words you are about to read.
They caught me a long time ago-
two small dangers
that wandered under my gaze
and turned up on my doorstep.
I let them in and that was my undoing
my glorious mistake
because I had never been warned.
The dangers came into my home
into my innermost spaces
and they broke my crystals into blood
and they played sweet music on the strings of my heart.
I couldn’t get rid of them
the music was so fine
and before I knew it
I was climbing a mountain.
I saw this mountain every day
but I never saw how high it was,
how hard it was to climb.
The stones cut my feet as I walk upwards
and I can’t stop walking on.
I’m going to climb and climb until I die
because I let in two dangers
out of the cold.
If you turn the page
you will see the dangers too
and you will be at their mercy.
They will enter your heart
and write their names there
become aches in your flesh
that you’ll never be able to heal.
The bright light will dazzle you
you’ll be blinded.
You’ll be gone.
A death is waiting for you
with innocent eyes
waiting to be let in.
You can leave the death waiting
out in the cold-
if you padlock your heart
and turn away now.
Perhaps you’ll do that
now I’ve warned you.
Go home, go back, to your safe warm bed
never looking behind you.
It’s a smart thing to do.
Here be dragons.
If you let them in
they will eat your heart.
(Don’t say you were not warned.)
Or perhaps you won’t.
The air smells sweet on this mountain
and I can hear someone calling
to me, I think they’re a long way away.
When I look down
all the world’s spread out to me
glowing with dawnlight
unexpected and beautiful.
I’m glad, I think, that I came here
that I let danger in
out of the cold.
Perhaps you’ll be better than smart-be wise-
and let it in too.
I’m waiting for you.
I’ll be glad of your company.