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Butterfly

When I put my palm out—

those butterflies never settle.

When you do, they do.

 

So the opposite is my hope…

When it watches you,

it dances;

yet when I am alone,

it drowns.

 

Addictive features to my sight—

eyes with colours,

nose with fragrance,

fingers that shimmer,

and wings that don’t lie.

 

Are you too a butterfly?

You fly within a blink.

 

Undescribed metaphor to fly.

Where this death dies—

in a coffin-like cocoon

comes out a new life.

 

Perhaps someday…

and, to everyone’s surprise,

it will land on my hand.

A butterfly flew away with a dragonfly.

I wished to be that dragonfly.

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Feb 15
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