TOO BUSY
On a walk the other day…as a flower garden I happened by
I stopped to watch…then have a conversation with a pretty butterfly.
“Do you ever worry, as I do?” I asked that pretty butterfly,
“about the world we are creating?”
“I haven’t got the time to worry.” She smiled as she flitted from flower to flower
“I’m much too busy pollinating.”
“Do you ever worry about your size…about how small and insignificant you are?
“Never!” She smiled, “because in the insect world I’m known as a star.”
“Yes, much like you I started out small but once my metamorphosis was done…
I came out feeling great
because I know I’ve been given a gift…and my gift is to pollinate.”
“You are so beautiful and graceful.” I said, “in every thing you do.”
“Do you ever worry that other butterflies are more graceful or more beautiful than you?”
“All butterflies are beautiful and graceful.” She said.
“All butterflies are my sisters and my brothers.”
“And it doesn’t matter if one of us is more beautiful
or more graceful than the other.”
“Our time on Earth is fleeting…we have an extremely short life-span
while we’re here we’re much too busy sharing our gift with as many flowers as we can.”
“So you don’t worry about anything?” I asked.
Immediately a smile lit up her face.
“I do not.” She answered.
“I’m much too busy trying to make my world a better place.”
“It was nice talking with you.” She said. “But I have to go now
because in the short time I have…in the world I’m helping to create…
I have a lot more gardens to visit…a lot more flowers to pollinate.”
As I watched her flutter off to another garden…watched her float across the sky
I wondered what our world would be like if we were more like that butterfly.
More interested in sharing with others…in giving unconditionally….
and it made me wonder who was more blessed in life…
that butterfly…or me.
Copyright © Jim Yerman | Year Posted 2025
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