Butterfly by Ivan Guerrero Najera

Butterfly


Spark from a hammering stone
Life as an evil incarnate
The past will unravel as if from a navel
And bring present, future around it

The choices that cry from afar
Arise in your head to adorn
To flavor regrets bittersweet
A horse without wings and a horn

A flutter, a breath in the night
And dawn may collapse into East
The spectrum of consequent thoughts
And the angel revealed as the beast

The maker of all that is yours
Of comforting, depleting breaths
It pushes you out of your nest
To land like a glass on stone floors

The butterfly, magnificent
It's wingspan fulfilled with content
It's flight graceful in its ascent
And life light as thought, imminent


by Ivan Guerrero Najera

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