Dreams Beyond The Milly Dam

Dreams Beyond The Milly Dam

By Paul McCann

There once were two swans in the Milly dam
with two big flapping feet..

Sometimes you’d see them walk from the dam

to the school in Butler street .

As the days went by they would fly away

To somewhere far beyond .

I often wondered where they went

and where they dreaming in another pond.

I called them Jigger and Jagger

and I hoped they’d  come back again..

To their nest beside the Milly dam

where the school kids often came .

.Did they dream of distant places  
where they could sing their own swan song .

Did they know the thrush and nightingale
or the duck that quacked all day .

How on Earth could they navigate

from those places so far away .

The two swans yawned and closed their eyes
then they rested their little head .

And dreamt  of fairy trees and bumble bees

with honey on their bread .

Progress came and they drained the dam

and there was no place they could hide.

So they just flew away

and have not returned again to this day .