Like Irises in spring,
You bring out the beauty in everything.
How long a lonely winter,
Did I wait to see you once more.
So bitter was the biting cold,
While you were sleeping,
Safe within your cocoon.
But now you are no longer
Bound to the ground,
As I still am.
You spread your wings,
Without any sense of fear,
You fly.
If I desperately call after you,
Would you abandon me
For your endless skies?
Surely, you've changed,
And I am still the same
Caterpillar dreaming dreams
That are too big for her head.
I would be lying to you,
If I ever said that I wouldn't mind
Being left behind.
Butterfly, you are too beautiful,
You've been above me for too long,
Because I am too afraid
To think of the great flight.
I hold you back,
So you've been
Slowly letting me go.
Only now that I've been
Patiently waiting so long,
Do I realize what I've done.
Unless I take to your skies,
Nevermore will I see you,
All the truth in your eyes.
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The Songs of The Gullible Wiseman: The Early Poems of Maddy Kobar 2008-2013
PoetryA young writer's newly released first collection of poems. Written during the tumultuous and at times troubling years of high school and the more forgiving and enlightening years of college, Maddy Kobar captures what it was like to have come of age...
