The Butterfly

Sailen Routray

Painting 'Chasing Butterflies' (2015)
Oil on canvas, by Todd Williamson (1964-present)
Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons/Todd Williamson

The butterfly gets startled.

But it does not swing on the flowers.

Nor does it skim the waters.

Is this all that is there to the story?

Or is there something more?

This field of flowers

stretches from the gates of my dreams

to the horizons of your sleeplessness.

Therefore,

the flowering plant does not die. 

But the butterfly?

It gets startled.