The Dragonfly Inside Poem by Alain Joubert

A dragonfly
Flies inside of me
Crawling itself around the swamps, the ponds,
And the marshes inside of
Me

Blind as a sunlight
Deaf as a noisy room
Not much room to fly for that
Dragonfly
That flies inside of me

It survives of the gnats and the mosquitoes it
Captures inside of
Me

The only time the dragonfly flies
In open air
The only way the dragonfly swims
In open waters
Is
When I allow myself to breathe through
My lines
With a blank screen in front of
My nose
Otherwise
A dragonfly keeps on
Flying inside of
Me…