Challenge
Butterflies
A symbol of hope, dreams, the tiny feeling in your stomachs, a delicate idea, symmetry, a weapon of mass destruction. Write a poem about anything as long as it includes butterflies (or a butterfly if your that person).
The beat of a butterfly’s wings...
They say the beat
Of a butterfly’s wings
Can create a hurricane
Far
Oh so far
Down the line
I’m scared
Of having
So much power
Of all the potential
My fragile wings
Possess
Can I stay
Warm and wrapped
Inside my dark cacoon?
Just an ornament
A chrysalis
Upon a dainty leaf?
I wait and muse
Will I smother?
Am I alive?
Or am I dead?
Inside my blessed prison
Do I truly exist?
I choke
I fight
I want to breathe
I emerge into the world
I am born
And so are the possibilities
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