It's A Blue Butterfly... Poem by RIC BASTASA

inside my heart
there is a blue butterfly

it is not fluttering

it is still
and so fragile

your whisper
warm as a sea breeze

displaces it
for i shall allow it

it waits for your kind hands
to take it and keep it and hide it

if you crush it with your cares
beautifully it shall surrender its powder wings

it's been quite a long wish
that you blow it far away from its home

the death that you give
with the indifference of your fingers

shall set it finally
free