am i more like a
moth or butterfly?
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am i drawn to the flame
of endless hate and suffering?
where misery will light the path and
explode in my face when
eventually i will
be snuffed out and put to rest.
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or will i rise to the occasion in
extravagant color and
hatch from a chrysalis into the
beautiful creature i am?
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i can’t tell.
Posted Sep 12, 2022, 4:17 PM UTC · edited
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I love the imagery and wording you've used. The poem painted a little picture in my head and filled me with a mixture of hope and sorrow.
Amazing work
thank you! <3
Your formatting and conscious questioning is something i also do and am still stunned when someone else does it!
Your individualism is poetically expressed
thank you so much. this means a lot!!
Moths and butterflies are so similar but yet so different. It is like we are all both creatures: attracted to the things that will bring us down and also always rebuilding ourselves to something new.
I like this. 10/10.
agreed! thank you!
Catharsis. A transformation either way isn't it? Neat.
such a lovely word
wow this is beautiful. im speechless
thank you so much!
I like the duality you're capturing here, and I think moth/butterfly is an excellent way to put it. I often go between the two myself whenever I'm depressed and I think you speak well to both the doubt and hope of improvement. I think the second stanza could be cleaned up a bit more. I'd say to keep the first two lines and maybe rephrase the last ones to something like this:
"am i drawn to the flame
of endless hate and suffering?
will misery light my path
only to explode in my face
and snuff me out again?"
I'm not sure, but I definitely think you should play around with it some. Other than that, good work!
this helps! thank you so much!!