Metamorphosis

he came towards me in the darkness as though just walking by his eyes were large and luminous and he wore a butterfly tie and those butterflies were moving rhythmically pulsing things that drew my eyes towards them towards their moving wings and suddenly they were flying I could hear the wind sigh as they whirled and swirled and I heard the stranger cry and shiver and quiver and fade then just a pile of cloth was where he’d stood and a large and luminous moth an awesome yet enthralling sight was climbing away up into the night and I stood there bewildered and fearful in that lane wondering and doubting if I were still sane I still don’t know to this very day but that memory will just not go away these dark nights now I never walk alone the night is full of perils for a being on its own he’d come towards me in the darkness as though just walking by his eyes were large and luminous and he’ d worn a butterfly tie