Butterfly

So I haven't posted anything in awhile. Don't see the point really, it's not like anyone actually reads this. But more for me than anything else, I decided to share the poems I've written recently. It's the first time I've written anything since before my hospitalization last school year. I thought for awhile I had lost my gift, that maybe I could only write when I was in the dark place. But I'm realizing I just have to begin to learn to feed off of different emotions than I was before.


I want to be a butterfly
Break free from my cocoon
Struggling against
The weight of life
Trying to transform
But everyone keeps telling me
I will never change
While I try to gain
My wings
They mock me as I squirm
Why don’t you believe in me
Why can’t you see
Just like every caterpillar
I’m trying to break free
You can doubt me all you want
But you can’t change
Nature’s course
Regardless of what you
Think of me
I too
Shall break these chains
Spread my wings
And fly