Best Timebutterfly Poems


The Hymn of Freedom

The Hymn of Freedom
 
 
The butterfly could not formulate 
glass
on which it battered its flimsy wings
freedom lay beyond the pane
still cruelly beckoning 
with light and colour
the scent of flowers and open fields
 
How like a god I was 
as I sat and watched
the implacable glass 
tear its wings apart
and I heard a choir of voices singing to me
 
I sat and let the butterfly die
baked by the heat 
and its struggle to be free

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