Dragonfly

There is a swarm of dragonflies
darting across our backyard
and the neighbor's.

The swarm is entertaining, but I am
watching one. Rather, I am trying to
watch one, but it keeps disappearing.

Here then gone. Here then gone.
Hiding. No, that's not it. It is
merely in and out of my sight.

The dragonfly -oblivious to me -is going
about its business, darting where it may.
There just happens to be a fence.

I am irrelevant.
This is not hide and seek.
It's not like we're friends.