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I Don't Want To Be A Butterfly. Poem by Jayson Klarian Cortez

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I Don't Want To Be A Butterfly.

I don't want to be a butterfly.

Not just yet

Just not now.

I don't want to be a butterfly.

I have yet to try every leaf,

Every petal,

Every herb.

I don't want to be a butterfly.

My legs work just fine,

Why need wings?

Why take flight?

I don't want to be a butterfly.

So much to do

So little time.

Why must I be a butterfly?

When I have yet to be a caterpillar.

Jayson Klarian Cortez

Thursday, October 22, 2026

Topic(s) of this poem: butterfly,metaphor

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The feeling of growing older, having never truly experienced a childhood.

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