Jilted BUTTERFLY Poems

Today was really hard. I felt like my mind was slipping.
I sent an sms
I tried to unsend it
I tried to take it back
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sounding off the far mountain wall,
bouncing back quieter and softer.
more beautiful with each fainter repetition
and more sad too, the original brightness fading and slowly dying
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a sound like ice cracking
loud and echoing up the hill
made the workers stop and look up
birds flew into the sky in fright
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Sometimes in the heat of despair
we lost sight of perspective
It bends and curves and distorts
Like light round a black hole
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I heard he died today
I thought he died long ago
I loved his novel about one day
I liked his simplicity - his tone
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Liking flashing images in a Zoetrope
Promise, instants filled with promise
Vignettes of a perfect ruse
Each flashing image lets a little light in - a sliver
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distorting reality and perspective
making small things seem important
like a smile
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Summer Suns sweltering heat sweats,
movement is trapped, confined
gestures are heavy effort - weighted
trickles of perspiration tickle the brow
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The sailors cling with whitened knuckles to the rigging,
A fierce gail blows, throwing spray and fears of sinking,
They look to the captain, his jacket torn and open,
They look to the skies, black and full of storm,
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She shrieked and screamed and bawled and cried,
'how can something so a small make so much noise'
soothing and cuddling and shushing she tried,
She played her soft music and gave her soft toys,
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