by Mary Straniero

Created on: April 19, 2009

Butterfly Emerge Again

I came out of the dark chrysalis

Wonder and joy at my new found freedom

A birth of a soul

Stifled too long

A dark long passage

with no end in sight

Hidden in a cocoon of

patient loving grace

Not really knowing

That once I was born

The flight would be short and joyful

But others came and stole my beauty

Took it away

They saw a butterfly in flight

How dare she fly, be so

joyous, so colorful,

So free unlike me

How dare she be?

The butterfly dance

was brief and complete

Now I'm back in the darkness

Of a warm pregnant womb

I wait for my wings once again

Once again I know

I'll be born, and I will bloom

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