Poem

Safe-

We are all together in this enclosure

There is nowhere better to go:

We have reached the top.

Yet a butterfly lingers agonizingly in my heart

And a single worry flits slowly in and out-

What if it's not?

Then someone leaves-

Escapes unseen, unnoticed,

And we continue to party 

But masks are drawn and smiles are false

And the butterfly…

It multiplies and multiples.

My heart is alive with wings.

Another and another-

They seem to disappear

Where did they go? How?

The fire slowly dies

Our laughs and smiles falter

Everyone starts searching for the escape

I am scared

I don’t want to be alone.

I look and look-

Too much I realize now

For when I turn around

I am alone-

They have all left

Disappeared.

Escaped.

And the fire is gone

I cry desperately

Staring at cruel darkness.

The butterflies swarm my body

They lay siege to my mind

Lifting the curtains to the tragedy in my mind

And I see myself on the stage 

Of a deadly a play

The audience is a mocking shadow

And the butterflies descend for the final act

Enclosing me

I am trapped.