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How Did You Kill A White Butterfly?

in your play
with your peers
children
when you catch
a white butterfly
in your hand
how did you
kill it?

did you pull
its white wings?
or did you crush
its head
on your nails?

did you detach
its legs one
by one
like you pulled
the white hairs
of mother?

tell me
if once in your mind
you decide
to set it free
and see it fly
hovering like
a flake of snow
from one
wilting flower
to another?

tell me if you
feel the same way
i do
when the clutches
of love finally set me free?

tell me if you know
the sound of a door
which closes behind you
when finally you
decide to leave
the house of
your birth?

tell me how you
zip your jacket
when you say
it is enough
and then
you feel everything
so warm inside
you?

that every inch
fits and you say

i am leaving for good.

did you really kill
the butterfly with white wings?

or you set it free?

poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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