A man tended his garden, lost in routine
When fluttered in a butterfly, unannounced,
More brilliant than anything he’d ever seen,
Entranced, he laid down his shears,
And proclaimed: “O’ butterfly, I’d sow the whole Earth,
So you might always alight,
Gently upon a flower’s petal,
And if your wings ever grew weary,
I’d plead the wind whisper you ease,
And failing that, gladly give whatever I possess in my lungs.”
But of course, the butterfly’s visit was brief,
Drifting from his garden almost as soon as it’d arrived,
And so goes how a man, true to his promise,
Having willingly surrendered to an all-consuming, selfish love,
Transformed Earth into an Eden,
But just as in scripture,
Only for two.