Dragon Tamers

We had dinner with our daughter, her daughter (our granddaughter) the other night and before we had been fed. my mind drifted to a time when our daughter was a child…afraid of monsters neath her bed. When she would cry out, "Daddy! Daddy! Help me! There's a monster under my bed." And I would ride in on my dragon, with my sword held high…and slay that monster dead! "There will come a time you'll tame your own dragon." I remember telling her. "I'll teach you how one day and together with your dragon…Oh! the monster you will slay." I remember telling her how that day is coming soon…but since I didn't know exactly when… ‘You needn't worry, Princess." I said. "I shall stand guard till then, " It's been many years since the day I smiled as she proclaimed "Dad! Dad! I did it! My dragon I have tamed." Many years I've watched proudly…through her pleasure and her pain. as she sits confidently atop her dragon…and OH! The monsters she has slain." And though my dragon and I are a little slower than we were when we slayed monsters neath her bed I hope she knows we are ready, when she needs us, to help slay any new monsters…dead. Yes, it's something that I learned all those years standing guard outside her bedroom door… Helping save our princesses…is what dads and dragons were created for.