Dragon Advice

Having
a great Dragon to fight
is important.  

Yes,

you say,

I know,
but finding the right dragon
is heavy and hard work.

Is there a short cut, a bypass
that leads past it?
I think I can get by on charm.

Of course you can…
but your Dragon will miss you
and seek you 
and in your later years will find you;

your charm will get singed
and you will find the Dragon smell of belly-smoke
and longing intolerable at a time 
when you have no will or strength left
for fighting. 

The road you are asking about,
by the way,
begins…

here.