From despair to butterfly

Silently, from afar
She watches and waits
Who will blink first?
The guilty or innocent

Victims, both; trapped 
Prisoners; feelings hurt
Betrayal, a bitter pill
Who'll comfort my child?

A long cold war rages
No clear victor in sight
Diplomacy doesn't work 
Cause for mea culpa

To breach the boundary
Undercover; a Trojan horse
In a heart gone cold 
From despair to butterfly
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