Butterfly Love

Before you are carried away With leaves that come tumbling down, Before you succumb To the crumbling of the hour, I will give you a love Like no other love you have known. For that which can never be stolen, Time will devour. We measure our love by the lifetime A thimbleful only of sky. To the mountains, and oceans, and stars Just a moment that passes by. Time brings a death to each season We think that to measure, we're clever. It follows no rhyme or reason, While love embraces forever. A butterfly lives but a moment Yet it knows that love grows within, It turns moments of life into hours Through the love it reveals on its skin So love with the love that each butterfly brings For a lifetime, a moment, or hour And live to reveal the song your love sings Like the butterfly, kisses the flower.