New Poem: Metamorphosis

Metamorphosis.

I am full of hope today,
the kind of hope that reminds me of what it was like
to be a kid
to have the galaxy fall from the sky and touch your fingertips
to know you could dream
and that those dreams would come true.
that hope sits with me
in my stomach heavy and moving
churning it rises up on the wings of butterflies
caught and flurrying in my digestive track
they want to break out of my mouth
in words, or maybe something much more disgusting
so I keep it closed, along with my eyes
and I remember that childhood knowing
and I beg and I plead with it
to return, to make sure that hope, caged
in my ribs with all those damn butterflies
that just don't quiet fluttering wings,
spins its own chrysalis
and emerges joining the swarm as
a reality.

2012. Ami Lovelace. All Rights Reserved.


Content Copyright 2011. Ami Lovelace. All Rights Reserved.