Poems, stories and lots more- Dr Audrey Coatesworth

The Young Dragon

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ACoatesworth 2009

Once upon a time there lived a young dragon.

'It' was a very beautiful dragon with shimmering and brightly coloured
scales over all its body and a tail that swished about. Its wings were not big,
but shone in the sunlight.

'It' had bright eyes that shone in the light. Everyone loved the little dragon,
who was very kind.'It' could make others laugh with its antics. 'It' used
to dance around and could sing songs – in a dragon way, you understand.

The small dragon didn’t see its world quite like everyone else did. But, being very young, 'It' didn’t know or understand how much it was loved. To the small dragon, the world seemed big and sometimes frightening.

You may not know but this can happen to everyone. That’s why children, and even teenagers, need looking after very well until they are grown up. People tend to forget this and so did the dragon world. Remember, growing up can take a long time; sometimes we are ‘grown up’ in some ways and not in others.

This particular little dragon was almost the youngest in the family, but not quite. This was a problem. 'It' didn’t get to do what the older ones did, yet was not the same as the youngest. Oh dear me, no, not at all!!! 'It' thought it was older than it was – unless, of course, it fell and then 'It' ran to its Mother, like any child would.

'It' would always want to do everything that the bigger dragons could do. Sometimes this was possible but sometimes it was not. The little dragon had a lot of courage, but was not as strong or big as the others. 'It' was quite a clever little dragon, but it could not know EVERYTHING that the older ones had learned.

Now, you may wonder why I haven’t given it a name and keep calling it ‘It’! The reason is easy - I don’t know its name. I don’t know if it is a ‘girl’ dragon or a ‘boy dragon, but it really doesn’t matter as the story would be the same.

Sometimes the little dragon got very tired trying to keep up with the bigger dragons and really wished it was younger again – but of course, that was impossible. So 'It' tried very hard all the time to learn to do all the things that the older ones did.

But, the young dragon had a problem. There was one thing that sometimes happened to the young dragon that it didn’t like and no one else liked either! It didn’t seem to happen to anybody else that it knew. But, try as 'It' may - 'It' couldn’t stop what happened. Would you like to know what the problem was?

Let me tell you.

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