EVEN BUTTERFLIES LET GO

One day

I walked by a flower garden,

A kaleidoscope of butterflies arose.

Red mixed with yellow,

Some were golden, some were blue.

 

Gay feelings, for a while, had been strange to feel,

And then I saw a caterpillar on a tree.

The day it all became clear to me.

 

Even butterflies must let go

 

 

The dream weaver taking hold of me

Climbed into my head,

Creating dreams of fallacy.

Yet, I crawled out of my mind

Just in time

To save myself.

 

This realization,

This dawning,

I know now

 

Even butterflies need to let go

 

Eyes burn red

So emotions fool mind into believing something else.

Making from nothing-

A promise of nothing,

False sense of contentment

 

But even the sky lets go of the rain,

To cry life down the flower beds,

Of the garden from which the knowledge came to me that

Sometimes the only option we have is to leave.

 

To live

We must release

So we can inhale

Dream weaver come reclaim your hindering dreams.

  -Maybe one day your premonition may come to be.

But for now your lack of certainty

I see as only a lack of garantee.

 

Winged creature lands on my hand.

Lifts off as I relinquish my thoughts of you.

Watching it glide throught the sky

I breathe to it a word of goodbye

 

"Mariposa, you taught me to walk away- if I ever wish to live again..."

 

 

 

Author's Note

Mariposa- spanish 4 butterfly
The idea of using the butterfly to talk abt walking away from possible a hopeless situation , bad place etc came after looking at the different changes and cycles tht a butterfly must go through b4 for it fully develops. How it knows when the end of one chapter in its life has come and willing accepts the other. Moves on- to live- to develop into it full potential. tht being said...life goes on, what r u gonna do?

Reviews

[light and ashes]

Beautiful! I love it! Stanzas three and six are my favorite :] This is a lovely and enlightened poem.

[WynterPhoenix]

This is beautiful. I love butterflies.

[WritersSoul]

Wow, this is a very wise poem with a lot of meaning.
Very beautiful description flooding through all the words :)
Brilliant S :)

[Dove]

This is such an amazing and beautiful poem, you wrote this perfectly

[Becky C Strukamp]

You penned this well. Beautiful poem.

[Muse]

Mariposa, you taught me to walk away- if I ever wish to live again
Another lovely poetic work of art.

[NoneOfYourBusiness akaK..]

the lesson unfolds in lovely poetic sequence like the wings of a butterfly fresh from her silk coccoon~

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This is really amazing and wonderful, love the metaphors and vivid imagery. Makes me sad. Yet it is also beuatiful. very nicely written.