Dragonfly Exuviae
Menacing monster in submarine murk
An armoured dragon of the deep
Hidden in turgid depths to lurk
With ambush darts his prey to keep
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Relentless jaws are barbed with claws
This sinister predator is rapacious
Beneath these innocent waters trawl
Driven by appetite voracious
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By instinct drawn he knows not why
Compelled by strange primeval urge
The distant light above to seek
Now from these waters dark emerge
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Hard fast to the blade of a reed he clings
Laboriously up with urgent crawl
Expands with new found life to breathe
This little death new life form brings
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His landlocked shell his life deny
But wings outstretch so they can flood
The veins with fresh pulsating blood
That shimmer as they start to dry
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He thought that he was doomed to die
This new and glorious dragonfly
But vacates his old exuviae
And finds that he was born to fly.
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