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When all the butterflies are gone
And only Caterpilers yet remain
The barren landscape will forget
Just what the color green looked like.

When the rain no longer ever falls
And water tastes a bit like salt
The withered earth will hunger for
The sweet flavor of the morning dew.

When water seeps over the window sill
And everthing is muddy brown and ruined
The Mocking Birds will gather in a chorus
To sing sacred dirges to the houses.

When billboards are spray painted white
With only dabs of purple in the corners
The world will finally have ended
And somehow no one got the word.
ljm
Billboards and cockroaches will be the last things to go.
Max Feb 18
As you grow up they begin to warn you that your body will change, as if change isn't a constant, as if caterpilers don't turn into butterflies and the winters doesn't turn into the spring. What they dont warn you about is when you begin to question what it means to be confined by your flesh and bone. I don't care if my body changes, am I not still trapped? Why was I not warned of the horrors that lay in wait inside my own head? Why must I be told about the hair on my body and not the growing need to write every feeling down? No, I am shuned because of my feelings, and encouraged by my body. I am mature now. I am made to be looked at, not thought of.

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