Monarch Butterfly by ariya-sacca, literature
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Monarch Butterfly
The milkweed starts to spoil,
White sap,
The color of Virgin’s milk,
It is time to migrate,
Whispers the sun,
To the young butterfly,
In synchronized beats,
Vibrating, trembling,
From antennae to heart,
And the butterfly changes,
It grows into a Monarch,
Old and wise,
In the ways of Nature,
And from the poison,
It has conquered,
It feeds its internal fire,
To make the long journey,
To the place of its ancestors,
Many generations removed,
Where cool mountain trees,
Call for it,
To come home.
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