Flutterbye

I had a beautiful butterfly. 

I could not keep him under glass

for it would suffocate him. 

I could not hold him too tightly

for then he would not be able to fly. 

With all the love in my heart,

I opened my hands and set him free. 

I lay breathless, unable to fly.

We were one in the same,

 but I was the wiser.......