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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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