Meeting with a dragonfly By: Ana Ce Sánchez

Meeting with a dragonfly

By: Ana C. Sánchez

In December 2011I went to Boyacá with some friends of mine. We stayed in a farm in front of Tota´s lake. We were so happy cause We were in a special, romantic and natural  place. The first day, we did a small party: we did a barbecue, we danced and we did drinking a little.

From then on second day, we spent time together  doing things such as cleaning the house, preparing the breakfast, cooking the lunch, playing Boggle, among others.  But in some moments, everybody did things alone such as painting, walking, dancing, reading, in according with the personal taste.

One day, my friends left to walk around the lake, and I stayed in the house listening to music and painting. I was listening Sting, exactly Fragile, maybe my favorite Sting´s song. It´s a beauty and sweet song. In this moment, came into a huge dragonfly. I got frightened when I saw It, while It flew around the living-room. But in a moment, It stopped on the window.  Then I Looked the dragonfly. I observed her body, her iridescents wings, and her shiny ayes. Meanwhile, She looked at me (well, I thought that It looked at me). The dragonfly´s eyes met with my eyes. I was astonishment. This was a strange moment. I won´t forget it. I felt like intro a fairy tale, in which I have a meeting with a fantastic creature. This moment was like a movie. The soundtrack of my story was Sting, with his slight guitar and his “on and on the rain will fall like tears from star, like tears from star. On and on the rain will say How fragile we are, how fragile we are”. In that way the dragonfly and I remained a little time (2 minutes more or less). Later, the dragonfly went, and I stayed alone in the living-room. I continued painting with feeling of I had been a magic meeting.