(So it's inspired by several different people.)


-Butterfly Infect-

You perfect wilted nothing

That harmless look in your eye; the changing whim that you chase; belie that flawless face with your rotten-seamed soul.
Pushed into this rut; yeah, it’s a pain in the gut
You know you’re better now you’ve gotta get out but you don’t know how
They keep you drugged so numb, to keep you under their thumb

Float by on a summer breeze just like another disease, just like an echo unseen, another face in a dream
It’s so pretty when you fly, why can’t you fly to me?
It’s so ugly when you die, why can’t you die with me?
Hold you close and you die away
You fall away from me

You’re so elegant as you flutter through the gutter; if I talk to you, I choke and sputter
I see butterflies land on sh*t all the time, it doesn’t lower the one or elevate another
Lit up so bright, you can’t see a thing; you just float by the world in your synthetic disease

You float by like a butterfly, out of my reach
But when I hold you close, you up and die away
You’re so pretty on the inside – can’t you fly to me?
It’s so ugly when you die – why can’t you die with me?

It’s so hard to dissect the way that you infect; I lost so much respect for me
It’s always what you can’t have that you think you need;
It’s all the pretty nothings that’ll make you bleed
It’s always something in my head that lets me be deceived

You’re so elegant as you flutter through the gutter; if I talk to you, I choke and sputter
I see butterflies land on sh*t all the time, it doesn’t lower the one or elevate another
Lit up so bright, you can’t see a thing; you just float by the world in your synthetic disease

You perfect wilted nothing

I really like that second to last section. Very true - very ow!

"It’s always something in my head that lets me be deceived

Lit up so bright, you can’t see a thing; you just float by the world in your synthetic disease

You perfect wilted nothing"

Amazing how many people would be able to recognize this in another in a heart beat, but miss it in themselves for a life time.....

TM

Hey T! How've you been?

I liked this poem. And the title...clever.

Thanks for sharing!