Butterfly

What if a Butterfly,
a Monarch,
Danaus Plexippus,
landed its bright Wings
on Your Shoulder,

unknown to You
as You go Inside
from
Your Garden.

Now She’s
trapped
and flutters
helplessly
against Your
Window.

Do You Decide,
from Your
God-like Purview,
that She needs
to be Beautified
before You
Release Her?

Do You search for
Your Watercolors,
to brush strokes of
Bright Blue or Green
across Her
Diaphanous Wings?

Do You find a
Gorgeous Silk Scarf
and cut out
Wings
to glue to
Our Lady Monarch’s
shivering Back?

Or do You
gently,
Fingers trembling with
Adoration,
cover Her,
for a Moment,
in a Glass Tumbler,

Carry Her to
Your Door and

Release Her
back into Her
Queendom?

My Friend,
The You that is
You
needs no
Artful Improvement.

Release
Your Self
Back into Your
Wild Garden.

(Photo by Kathy Servian; UnSplash)