Dialogue with the Butterfly

      Dialogue with the Butterfly

"I cannot reach for the rainbow, 

neither can I make one, 

but you, by your wings and wand, 

can build the biggest crown."

                                                                Dr Abe V Rotor 

                 Anna, author’s daughter visits a butterfly garden in Bohol

              Exquisite netted venation of a butterfly wing, representing nature's architecture universal in the insect world, flying foxes, leaves of most plants, and blood vessels in human and other creatures.

  

Life cycle of the butterfly - from egg to caterpillar to pupa to adult - the butterfly.

Fly me to your world, oh butterfly,

where flows the Pierian Spring,

the fountain of youth eternal,

where Sylphids dance and sing.

 

I'd rather wish to be in your garden    

foe and friend yet we're one,

where the tree of knowledge blooms,

nurtured by rain and sun.

 

I cannot reach for the rainbow,

neither can I make one,

but you, by your wings and wand,

build the biggest crown.

 

Your sense of beauty’s not ours,

fleeting and elusive,

ephemeral to your senses all,

before it is perceived.

 

Just for once, oh butterfly, to leave  

the home of my ancestor,

I shall cease to ask another favor    

nor crave for more. 

 

      Then I shall fly no more in your garden; 

      the flowers will die with the fountain,

      and all that lives shall crave the same

      with nothing to hope and gain. ~