Butterfly Scar 2
Butterfly, as you emerge,
Your bleeding ink on my skin, like
Paper soaked in milk
At night.
Oh, how she cries,
Alone in darkness.
Butterfly, you are
Her only companion.
The flutter-beats
Of your breast
Penetrating nothing but
Delicate beads
On the wrist of a tree,
Brittle limbs bending almost
But not quite far
Enough to break.
Butterfly,
Accept my apologies,
As I lament your subtle death
By Blue
Tile and water.
I shed your
Flutter-heartbeat
Wings, cerulean energy,
And replaced you
In effigy, on to the
Tissue paper
That melts away
When I bathe.
Scarlet warriors
Trample the fragile
Yellowed and
Paper-thin
Membrane of
My being.
Butterflies float idly
On my milky
Cotton breaths
Until we can
Together release
All the tension
In fingertips, wings.
Butterfly, I thought
You were
Evidence of hope, and freedom,
So I am sorry;
I marred your
Innocence by forcing you into
Such heresy, as if you were
Negatives of a photograph,
Proclaiming what never was.
Oh, how I apologize, for
I deprive you of
Your cotton breeze
Until together we must melt
Away.
Your bleeding ink on my skin, like
Paper soaked in milk
At night.
Oh, how she cries,
Alone in darkness.
Butterfly, you are
Her only companion.
The flutter-beats
Of your breast
Penetrating nothing but
Delicate beads
On the wrist of a tree,
Brittle limbs bending almost
But not quite far
Enough to break.
Butterfly,
Accept my apologies,
As I lament your subtle death
By Blue
Tile and water.
I shed your
Flutter-heartbeat
Wings, cerulean energy,
And replaced you
In effigy, on to the
Tissue paper
That melts away
When I bathe.
Scarlet warriors
Trample the fragile
Yellowed and
Paper-thin
Membrane of
My being.
Butterflies float idly
On my milky
Cotton breaths
Until we can
Together release
All the tension
In fingertips, wings.
Butterfly, I thought
You were
Evidence of hope, and freedom,
So I am sorry;
I marred your
Innocence by forcing you into
Such heresy, as if you were
Negatives of a photograph,
Proclaiming what never was.
Oh, how I apologize, for
I deprive you of
Your cotton breeze
Until together we must melt
Away.