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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
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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
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