Murky Spring

A blue butterfly hatched between the cracks of its cocoon

spread its wings

black legs grabbed the green branch.

Tears fell on the butterfly, lightning shook the yellow branch.

The blue butterfly held on.

The daisy waved to the butterfly in the wind. Between the petals,

black eyes watched the next victim. They crawled slowly,

up the trunk, around the tree wart, past the squirrel, onto the branch, past the chirping bird nest.

It stopped, slowly descended from the branch,

sunbathing and smelling the flowers in the wind.

The butterfly took off the branch escaping. It flew into the spider web, suffocating. Children screamed in the bus as it passed through the spider web. 

Author's Note

Comments and thoughts are welcomed.