Dragons Within

The dragon sleeps 

Your quest begins 

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First take control 

Of the wayward soul 

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That thinks and feels

Within.

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A friend sent me the amazing quotation from St. Makarios of Egypt below, after reading my short poem above, which also uses the idea of "dragons within": 

The heart itself is only a small vessel,

yet dragons are there, and lions;

there are poisonous beasts

and all the treasures of evil;

there are rough and uneven roads,

there are precipices.

But there, also, are God and the angels;

life is there, and the Kingdom;

there, too, is light, and there the apostles, 

and heavenly cities, and treasures of grace.

All things lie within that little space.

St. Makarios of Egypt (4th century)
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• Epiphanies of the Spirit