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People have butterflies   In their stomach they say,  When something tickles their heart away.  They say something dances in there,  That something gets them all red .  That is how they know   When something is good for their heart,  The butterflies, I suppose is a sign of love  -captured in their heart,  Making their way around,  The butterflies dances to someone else's songs  And the world they live in   Gets brighter.    People say   They have butterflies   In their stomach,  When someone tickles their heart  But all I feel is a burn  As if acid churns up my soul.  It rises in my guts to my heart   Perhaps to burn the love   Or the fingers perhaps that tickles it,  Perhaps because   the butterflies in my stomach  are dead!  In others they remain dormant   In mine they just died for living too long   In hope but no fingers to carve their world.  Maybe they died in their pupas  Suffocated by all the strangling hands,  Or maybe they flew away   In search of someone in the past.  But the acid I feel  Is their ashes still ablaze,  I guess that is what is most probable  That they died long ago, Been stuck there for too long  Held hostage by my fear  And burnt by the matches People unknowingly rubbed along.  And so every time something,  Every time you tickle my heart,  I guess it is good for it,  Fire burns in my stomach,  Rises up my guts   And I run to throw up,  To throw it all away.  I don't think I am made to tickle.  I have fire in my heart,  It burns everything away   And I have carcasses of wings to clean up!
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Apr 5, 2017
Apr 5, 2017 at 11:20 AM UTC
Dead Butterflies
People have butterflies   In their stomach they say,  When something tickles their heart away.  They say something dances in there,  That something gets them all red .  That is how they know   When something is good for their heart,  The butterflies, I suppose is a sign of love  -captured in their heart,  Making their way around,  The butterflies dances to someone else's songs  And the world they live in   Gets brighter.    People say   They have butterflies   In their stomach,  When someone tickles their heart  But all I feel is a burn  As if acid churns up my soul.  It rises in my guts to my heart   Perhaps to burn the love   Or the fingers perhaps that tickles it,  Perhaps because   the butterflies in my stomach  are dead!  In others they remain dormant   In mine they just died for living too long   In hope but no fingers to carve their world.  Maybe they died in their pupas  Suffocated by all the strangling hands,  Or maybe they flew away   In search of someone in the past.  But the acid I feel  Is their ashes still ablaze,  I guess that is what is most probable  That they died long ago, Been stuck there for too long  Held hostage by my fear  And burnt by the matches People unknowingly rubbed along.  And so every time something,  Every time you tickle my heart,  I guess it is good for it,  Fire burns in my stomach,  Rises up my guts   And I run to throw up,  To throw it all away.  I don't think I am made to tickle.  I have fire in my heart,  It burns everything away   And I have carcasses of wings to clean up!
shanath
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Apr 5, 2017
Apr 5, 2017 at 11:20 AM UTC
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