Scarlet Dragon Egg

Scarlet Dragon Egg
© Surazeus
2024 11 09

While searching for the secret of true love, 
Ophelia finds the scarlet dragon egg 
bright as the smooth ruby her mother hides, 
so she carries it safe inside her heart 
to nurture holy spirit of the Earth, 
and hums softly as she sews baby clothes. 

Gasping from agony of sudden pain, 
Ophelia rides taxi to the hospital 
where she half-crawls to emergency room, 
and winces at searing pain in her womb 
as the doctor examines with concern 
problem her fetus must to suffering from. 

Writhing in anguish on the wrinkled bed, 
Ophelia cries from terror of her shock 
when the doctor explains with trembling voice 
there is some problems with her pregnancy, 
so she needs to abort the baby soon, 
but he cannot do anything to help. 

Because abortions are against the law, 
I would be arrested and charged with crime 
for committing egregious felony 
against hard moral values of the state, 
so though I am eager to save your life 
I cannot act against that unjust law. 

Half-stumbling down sterile hospital hall, 
Ophelia leans against clean polished wall 
and groans from agony of searing pain, 
then rides bus across town in dreary rain 
to collapse on emergency room floor 
where her soul drains away in pool of blood. 

Staring blindly into blank nothingness, 
Ophelia curls and shakes on shining floor, 
body enclosed in scarlet dragon egg 
of heart-broken sorrow as she attempts 
to pray to Jesus in the sky for help, 
but sinks into deep silent gloom of death. 

Dressed in her favorite outfit that she wore 
every Sunday for services at church, 
Ophelia holds red Bible in her hands 
as she lies peacefully in clean white coffin, 
seeming to smile as she holds in her arms 
ghost of her child people see through their tears. 

Strolling across Bridge of Forgetfulness, 
Ophelia bears the scarlet dragon egg, 
bright as the smooth ruby her mother lost, 
till she arrives in lush Asphodel Meadows 
where her unborn daughter in frilly dress 
runs into her arms with fairy-wild laugh.