Fire
When the dragons arrive
Visuals are used to keep long-term focus
I'm going back Tomorrow In the car—no longer camouflaged Or disguised For the dragon eyes always search for signs Ready to spit fire from afar And oh those fiery dragons From some medieval tale A fable, from which no moral can be found Will swoop down from their lair Wings whirring Tails lashing An evil stare Unseen, on a screen A modern day cinema of doom They'll watch I know As the dragon swoons A kamikaze lunge Following its fugitive Anywhere he runs Coming in for the kill While the screen suddenly fills Then fizzles And the next modern dragon Whirs into the sky And I Will drive those new dragons to the frontlines While scanning the windscreen with my eyes For their own killer drones Bringing fire from up high
This is actually a true tale, which will either be tomorrow or a few days hence. Dragon tamers are often needed to drive newly-made contraptions…drones…to the front lines from where they are made. And there they take to the skies, for all manners of reasons — thus pics like the visual above, to remind me, or us, or all why this must be done. The drones are made in large quantity in diverse locations, none with a sign in front that bears any resemblance to activities inside.
I love how you used the dragon myth for the new drone warfare... being engineer I am amazed how much people have been able to combine low-tech with high tech in these simple devices. But alas the ultimate dragon is still there behind waiting to be released.
An interesting twist to the prompt, Ain, which has taught me something I didn’t know before. Resistance to war has moved on since WW2. I like the way you compare them to medieval tales and the lines:
‘For the dragon eyes always search for signs
Ready to spit fire from afar’
and the use of powerful active verbs such as ‘swoop’, ‘whirring’, ‘lashing’ and ‘lunge’.
I think your dragons are more terrifying than the mythological ones.