Butterfly

As the butterfly discovers the ending is not like the 
beginning. We crawl towards our endings from 
place, friend, and dream. Did the butterfly miss 
his silk cocoon. Did it regret silence? The cramped 
space? After I left my Mother’s warmth, found 
betrayal like the butterfly who gains flight and loses 
silence my beginning safer lighter than light. 


—Joan Canby

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