by Dexter Loignon
Loves first approach is loud
My words feel silent
Clouded by the sound of a hundred butterflies in my stomach
Your voice, your eyes, your hair, everything, they calm the racing butterflies
They settle on the branches within my stomach
Keeping the weight of a hundred butterflies from reaching the bottom
Keeping the weight from making a pit in me for all my fears to fall through
Finally not a fluttering wing
The noise of my fears is gone, my body and mind is silent
A new noise is appearing
The silent, still caterpillars in my heart have become beautiful new butterflies
Cocoons in bloom all around awakened only by you
Filled with a new life they spread their wings and the flutter appears again
They dash through my heart a new feeling without words
A flutter that used to be filled in my stomach, digging with fear
Now replaced with a flutter too loud to explain
Yet peace fills my heart and head
The butterflies are louder than ever yet a peace is in me that I’ve never had before
Because I have a hundred butterflies calling your name
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