*Ongoing* Disney Poetry Project

How To Train Your Dragon - Forbidden Friendship

Copyright © Leanne. P. Smith. 2013-2014

19th August 2014

Named for the wonderful piece of music from the movie, Forbidden Friendship (which you can see in the Mutimedia Section over there ---> ), this is my HTTYD poem and my first non-Disney poem! =D (I fully intend on continuing to call this my Disney project however. It's just easier than saying "target-audience-of-children-movie-poetry-project".)

I've been looking forward to writing this poem for a while now and regret it took so long. I just love dragons, I always have, and HTTYD is one of my favourite series ever. I don't care if I'm an adult.

Anyway...enjoy =) x

 

Forbidden Friendship

Once, I feared you—hunted, chased you.

Steel-tipped spears and iron chains

Swore to seize you from the sky

And cage you so you couldn’t fly.

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But looking at you here and now,

It’s strange they call you monster.

Kind eyes, cautious, not irate.

…How did I find you? Chance, or fate?

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A beast born of the livid dark.

A demon trapped in heaven.

That is what they said you’d be.

But look at you! You’re just like me!

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You’re nothing like those nightmares’ tales,

You’re not a savage killer.

How can they pin you with blame

And say you’ll end us all in flame?

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Calm, you watch me; I watch you too.

And hour by hour, day by day,

Through my wariness comes awe

Of your bright spirit, pure and raw.

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Could I have been so wrong these years?

Could we have all been blinded?—

Did terror seize us of our

Wits and teach us but to cower?

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I reach slowly; let me save you,

Dark night’s wanderer of stars.

You are of the fresh, clear air,

And it’s not right that you’re not there.

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How it hurts to see you broken,

Exiled cruelly to the ground.

I did this. …I’ll make it right.

I’ll see you once more take to flight.

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Let me aid you from this prison.

…You won’t hurt me. Will you? Please…

…Trust me. Let me help you home.

Cos’ I won’t leave you here alone.

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And from that moment I am lost;

I prize our time together.

…I should run from you, they’d say.

But I’m too deep, and there’s no way.

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Our souls are bonded, our hearts twinned;

It’s in you I find freedom.

Who’d have thought, from one small touch,

I’d grow to care for you so much?

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 My sure companion of the winds,

I saved you and you saved me.

Now we soar through sun and rain,

Not tied by destiny or chain.

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With you I’m free to be myself—

Feel the breeze, the ocean’s spray.

Boundaries seem far and thin,

Crossed by our courage from within.

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Cos’ you’re my strength. You light my way;

Trust and faith I place in you.

I’ll protect you to the end,

…For I love you, my guide, my friend.

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