Efecto Mariposa

write please read and enjoy

If you're reading this from the end

stanching the unfathomable river bend

please unclamp your hands, the fae is a friend

to all life of all the lands

Her royalty is only signifying

the fairy princess; her tears are drying

they worship their loss-born deity

a majestic tree of negativity

upside down, roots penetrate sheer stone,

to grow into another world entirely

as dark as a ghost in a graveyard on a new moon, alone

as vibrant as virgin glee, jubilation and rejuvenation in proximity

her people glimpse this foreign past with awe

they revere their dear mistress, a phantom love

her people run and play alongside her in the visions they saw

they are equal and share alike, life is lived laterally, none below or above

they bow and pray for her to appear, to hear her speak

she is captured and enslaved, forced to grant wishes

she is a goddess among them, her attunement made her weak

The dark fairy, both ancestress, sister and corpse of the fairy princess of yore,

summoned to another time and world, where magick is inverted in a way she has never seen before

worship at the tree that grows on all planes calls out and gives back her form

a cold butterfly flitters back to life, leaving its cage and smiling warm

and the stump that it died on grows back to a forest, as all the stones and steam engines turn to deer and foxes

little bunnies and mushrooms and logs, hounds and cats, fish and frogs, bees and bears and dogs

all the people stop fretting about all their material needs and stop thinking of places to be

and slowly forget of wishes and kingdoms, dragons and gold and even the fairy

they experience true care-freeness in the ecstasy of joy, o, true bliss

that only the pure love of a powerful heart can plant such seeds with a kiss

as they are so content they don't need to eat, or sleep or drink

the people forget to live, they are overwhelmed at her return and thus forget to think

and all of those, the little girl who caught her and everybody who used her to make a wish

die one by one, as her heart breaks into pieces, crying, while every human succumbs to a final, ecstatic paralysis

Without people, the forest overtakes the continent

idyllic to a fault, over abundant animals and insects, predators and prey

generations passed, the dark fairy becomes a leader, quite prominent,

before the fairy princess is lost in her own entanglement of power, unbalanced nature, unjustly you might say she once again fades away.