From the outside looking in

From the outside looking in: thank you mom!! Author: my mother for me

Heart shaped butterfly, you sore upon the wind
Lifted up with each gust, in the calm let down again.
To use your own powers to flutter as you go
Looking over landscapes and people as you go, pointing at you,
Why you just don't know.

Your beauty is a gift for people to behold, and those of us who see and watch as you flutter by like a feather taking flight.
You waif and whirl then sometimes take a rest.
But not for long, a few short gasps and then you're off again.

We want to touch, and hold you and take you in our hands.
But to do this we would take your life.
So all we do is stand gazing from afar, as you flutter past our sight.

And when the summers over we take one last glance, watching as you do your magic dance.
And then it's off to Mexico or some warm place like France.
What a life, a butterfly,
From chrysalis, to you.
It's like the little girl I knew,
She grew up to be you!!!!