Lesbian Poetry

Butterfly Love

Love is like a butterfly
It's life having to start with so much risk
Striving with pain and ache to prove itself worthy
To live and survive

And once it does there is never an awkward moment
For butterfly love is so majestic,
So powerful,
That this small miracle of life blows you away
Until you are almost blind,
With shock at the complexity and at the same time the pure simplicity

That is held inside two people,
That is held inside a butterfly,
That is forever and so wholly existent
In a world that doesn't allow things to last forever
In a world that doesn't allow butterfly love.