'THE BROKEN BUTTERFLY'

  • Sabrina Sihra

Winner of Teen Poets 2017 – Voices of Youth Competition

Pinions ripped but savagely beautiful getting paler and colder, forming crystals. One touch and she will crumble into dust, ashes, bountifully crushed.
Heavens water eternally frozen; clear shards, quartz crystal, painfully crafted. Her wings covered with a laminate layer as I cry out to god with one last prayer.
Mesmerised, with the stillness of a body so alive at one time, I would sit and just stare into the orbuculum. Peering into an abyss of fortune, thinking, of how your life began – simply a cocoon.