Ebony Butterfly---

EBONY BUTTERFLY We all can fly With powdered colored wings Different you and I But we're of the same being BUTTERFLY Look at me At my mastery See the beauty within And surrounding, ever holding me Is the many colored wings Fluttering, embracing, holding me Above this cruel, cruel world FREE THO I BE YET THEY JUDGE ME Colored I be yet different still I fly, I'm FREE God has made me, Jesus died so I fly away EBONY BUTTERFLY So I'm not bright nor fluorescent I shine Soaring heavens float in earthen skies I'm dark but yet I shine, I rise Pretty to the eyes Radiance creates I'm taking flight How can you try and criticize While viewing me you taught out lies Many are those colored wings Fluttering, embracing, holding me Above this cruel, cruel world Only one creator, we're His creatures From one cocoon we're all chrysalis pupa Does it make it legal For you to disown me For cause my colors and pattern not like yours You floor me, you shoot me down to the floors Cage me up cause you won't share the flowers Fluttering, embracing, holding me Above this cruel, cruel world EBONY BUTTERFLY So I'm not bright nor fluorescent I shine Soaring heavens float in earthen skies I'm dark but yet I shine, I rise A many are my colors bright Beautiful my color too is... right Golden tan, bronze, brown, brass, charcoal gray black *****, dark, pitch-black, jet-black, coal-black, ebony Sable, inky, brunet, obsidian, onyx, raven, slate, dusky Be it I'm atramentous, melanoid, stygian, somber, swart Or ebon, ink-like, piceous, livid, murky, shadowy, pitch-dark Starless and sooty swarthy I AM did I mention black Maybe the world would love me if I were a moth EBONY BUTTERFLY So I'm not bright nor fluorescent I shine Soaring heavens float in earthen skies I'm dark but yet I shine, I rise EBONY BUTTERFLY Soaring the heavens float in earthen skies 8/05/18 written words by James Edward Lee Sr.©2018 8/05/18 written words by James Edward Lee Sr.©2018