Gonna Be Some Changes Made

Happiness is like a butterfly: the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it comes and sits softly on your shoulder. - Thoreau

tarnished fork and rusty spoon

we went walking on the moon

polychromatic chrysalis suspended upside down from a green shoot of love

strong push come to a nudging shove

like all good things

happening from heaven above

roses, honey and sugar sweet

we danced into eternity

on a musical street

with weak knees and terpsichorean feet

she a sweet, fluttering robin

me a 're-pete'

time to lift the shade

peel away the band aid

mend that which has too long been frayed

there's gonna be some changes made

Author's Note

"You think that I am impoverishing myself withdrawing from men, but in my solitude I have woven for myself a silken web or chrysalis, and, nymph-like, shall ere long burst forth a more perfect creature, fitted for a higher society. - Thoreau

Reviews

[Poetic Beauty]

In life I believe we are much like caterpillars morphing and evolving constantly from the lesson and blessings we have learned along the way. I’m always trying to be a better version of myself for as we all are, I am flawed.

I love the wording and the phrasing in this poem to convey that exact idea.