Lawrence
Hall
Dispatches for the Colonial Office
LogoSophia Magazine – A Pilgrim's Journal of Life, Literature and Love
When I was a Child I Saw a Dinosaur
There are not going to be many more dinosaurs
-C. S. Lewis, “De Descriptione Temporum,” 1955
When I was a child I saw a dinosaur
A dinosaur at the end of the lane
Rearing its head high above the pasture gate
It might want to eat little boys, I feared
So I held really still, and closed my eyes
And closed my eyes, so tightly closed my eyes
And closed my eyes, and then…opened my eyes –
The dinosaur (it didn’t roar) was still there!
When I was a child I saw a dinosaur
A real-life little-boy-hungry carnivore!
I wish I could see it again
