Writing Prompt

I know a girl who is like a butterfly, all free and wild, like a creature who smells all the flowers.

The speckles of a butterfly

Reminding me of the freckles that line her cheeks

They are short lived these creatures

Butterflies lack the abilities to survive

Doomed from the start by there lifespans

But, the shortness is spent in delight

Getting to smell the buds of roses

Feasting on the nectar ...

oh to be a butterfly

changing history

and making tummies flutter.

to be admired,

not for who you were,

but what you are now.

to be beautiful

only on the second glance.

to sip sweet nectar

from simple flowers.

to share dinner

with dirty bees.

to fly with the heat,

following an unknown,

yet innate sense of home....

You look just as beautiful as the day I met you

If not more

You’ve changed

The time we spent apart

The time you said you needed space

That only made me love you more

All I could see was your cocoon

You looked blank

You looked lifeless

You looked trapped

I wanted to help you

I wanted to rip you out of that shell

I missed you so much

The longer you were in there

The more I worried you would neve...

⚠️ TW: suicide ⚠️

Do you remember the first time we saw the butterfly? Fluttering past the hospital window, with you on my chest for the first time…

It was blue like the sky, like the ocean, like your eyes

You might not have remembered then, but I know you remember now.

We saw it for a second time, at the little park just down the street

A few years later, you were swinging high, pumping your...

I wrote letters

And sent them to you.

Our letters had butterflies

In the corners.

An example of how beautiful

Our friendship was.

But,

Like butterflies

They don’t live forever.

But you went quicker than others.

It’s okay though,

My butterfly

I see you all the time.

In different forms

And I smile

Knowing you still watch over me.

Love you elli....

She painted the

Trembling

Moths in

My stomach

To vibrant,

Dancing,

Butterflies....

Flying

Wings that touch the sky

So vidid

So short a life

The butterfly roame the sky

Smelling the roses

Living

Just busy being

I want to be

To not think

To live as an short living being

To just exist...

I am butterfly

See my shine

My honeydew wings

Glistening

I am a butterfly

Look at me

Aren’t I beautiful?

Don’t you agree?

I am a butterfly

See me fly

My delicate wings

Flapping

I am a butterfly

Can’t catch me

Aren’t I clever?

Are you playing?

I am a butterfly

Set me free

My fractured wings are

Still

I am a butterfly

Why did you trap me?

When I did nothing.

Nothing at all....

I walk up slowly my eyes alight, my stomach twisting at the sight

Her hair falls down in gentle waves, her eyes could light the sky for days

Her smiles nice soft and sweet, she’s often happy and upbeat

As i walk up to the scary the sight, the butterflies inside me begin to take flight

They flutter they fly, i desperately want to cry

They twist they turn, my unsaid words begin to burn

They’...

Butterflies that follow me wherever

I go

Butterflies that stay with me

Never leave

That’s more than I can say

About a lot of people

Butterflies

With their beautiful wings

Purple

And blue

White

And black

Butterflies that love me

That don’t fly out the

Open window

Butterflies that care

Butterflies that stay...