she spoke to me of dragonflies
and visits from the dead, and it made me
long to hear the voices of the lost,
those without tongue to taste the wind
or form the wistful whispers
why had I seen only a butterfly,
against an ignorantly blessed, black sky?
its colors a magnet to my eye, but silent
even with wings whipping desperately
as it was ****** into the abyss
no words issued forth
for my eager ears, to allay my fears
that there were no messengers
from the other side, or if there,
they chose not to take flight, or
find me worthy of their sad song
what if the disbelievers were right?
and once we lose sight,
and fall into deaf sleep
there is no ether where we roam,
but only the dank dark decay
the soundless feasts of bacteria
on the hopeless host
in some Native American Cultures, the dragonflies are seen as the souls of the dead