Metamorphosis: A Villanelle

Butterfly, use your wings to soar.
Your colors will not fade.
There’s plenty to explore.

Through this world you’ve slithered and bore,
The leaves and trees your only shade.
Butterfly, use your wings to soar.

Do not rest upon this earthly floor,
Those wings, for flying, were they made.
There’s plenty to explore.

Try it once and you’ll cry MORE!
The breeze shall be your aide.
Butterfly, use your wings to soar.

This world is not myth or merely folklore,
It is your stage on which to be played.
There’s plenty to explore.

Count up from one until four,
Glide, and your beauty will be displayed.
Butterfly, use your wings to soar,
There’s plenty to explore.

Picture

Emerald eyes
Magic, like the City.
He spoke, she melted
The world froze in place.
Those words, his words
Linger in days passed.
Peace in sleep and only there
Her tight lips reverse.
In waking, nothing’s changed-
His picture stays the same
While the heart in him,
Like the Wizard never was.

Passer By

Just because we laid together
Once. Doesn’t mean we’ll stay together
Forever. You are a wrinkle in a chapter
Of a book I couldn’t wait to close.
The story, about a girl—
Discovering. There’s more to this life.
She took too long, I won’t.
Just because we laid together, once.

A Kick From Deep Within

Speeding through life- SMASH! Cantaloupe on concrete- constant planning
For—tomorrow’s another day.
What about today?
Do you know who I am? Do you even know yourself?
Have faith in the reasons I’ve come to be—
Inside you I want to flourish, maybe then you’ll see
I am you and I am he and this can be
The joy you’ve all been searching for to lock inside your memory.
Look into a mirror; see into your eyes,
I’m growing right there, like a dream you inspired to live.
Breathe in the seconds that bring life and you’ll see—
Me, your reasons for everything.