Drawn to the flame

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Hold me one last time before I go.
Pin me up on your walls as if I have tattered old wings. I'm just a moth but you see butterflies in me. My wings are ripped at the edges yet you do not care. I am just a moth. I flew towards blank heat stumbling. I fell faster and harder than I could really remember. But that day I learned to fly. For I am just a moth. I am colorless. Yet to you I'm colored in.

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