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Butterfly

A great beauty, So simple and pure, Flirting with the sun and the wind and the stars themselves, A brush of breath. It touches my face. Like a baby's touch so light and unfocused. So easily broken, A creature of glass, That the merest touch would shatter the illusion.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2006




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