The Butterfly

(Tony Lawrie)

The symbolism of the Butterfly and its natural characteristics is used as sad and lamentable ballet lyrics about how we can deny ourselves thru feelings of unworthiness etc the love we so desire until it is all too late for us in life.

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(1st Verse) The Butterfly! Like Trust... Fragile Like Love... Fleeting Like Happiness... Elusive Always lost and aimless in the sky But magnificent to the eye Was always your Beautiful Buterfly (2nd Verse) Seeming unreachable Chasing, but never catching While in the sky Yet, easily captured Once landed close by Was always your Beautiful Butterfly (3rd Verse) In life's full bloom A number of times you glimpsed it In the clear blue summer sky Minnowing Flapping Fluttering Twirling Always magnificent to your eye And then it landing Its wings twitching nearby Your Beautiful Butterfly (4th Verse) And once landed Oh! The joy to ever have The longing to forever hold The endless desire to touch All denied cos of past ugliness, fear, and pain To ever lose, to kill, to crush Your Beautiful Butterfly (5th Verse) Then suddenly one autumn day! No longer fragile No longer fleeting No longer elusive It flutters and lands straight from the sky Right into your hands Your Beautiful Butterfly (6th Verse) But now there's no summer flower upon to rest No summer bloom left to caress So although, at last Finally, within your grasp Too late you feel it flutters by For your Beautiful Butterfly (Last Verse) And so right there! Never having Never holding Never touching Never loving You allow to both wither and die Your once Beautiful Butterfly!

© Tony Lawrie 2020

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