Love is Like a Butterflywritten by happysaber@yahoo.com
Love is a butterfly that flutters from heart to heart
Wavers, bends, snaps, like a stem with heavy weight
Transient, a petal that tiptoes off a bud at the wind’s command
Insecure, a mirror -once shattered- unable to be mended again
Love can be given and can be taken, taken away and stolen
From the heart, a golden prize that might not return
Blinds, deceives, inflicts, like the absurdity revolving today
Enclosed like history until there is none left to write about.
But love is a precious glow of a blinking firefly
During the raven night when the light is dim
So small, so rare, so warm, so Thin…
Something you have given me so instantly
To be locked inside the bars of the heart eternally
But perhaps it flies out from yours without worry
Or maybe it was never in there in the first place
Love is a remedy, a painkiller, yet a poison
A petal that tastes bittersweet, in and out
It is that sweetness you let me taste, if just a little,
That I realize what is love. After, the magic is gone.
So I continue to search, to cage the butterfly that flew away.
Claimer: I submitted this to
Poetic Power's 2005 Fall California contest and it's printed on page 82 in their anthology. Please do not steal my poem whatsoever or use it without permission.