This Wing



Do not mourn

A flight well flown



Do not take sorrow

In many a traversed continent

The view of a thousand castles

Passed beneath this wing!



Weep not

For a glide that

Encompassed nation

Upon nation



That saw many a sunrise

And sunset

Over the turquoise seas

Piercing the transparency

Of this wing!



Don’t be sad



A thousand butterflies die each day

No one sees them

No one hears their stories

No one knows

Of their glides

Of their pilgrimage

They die unknown

With stories untold



But this one



This one is different



The fallen wing tells me

Of many a sea crossed

Many a nation hovered

Many a continent conquered!



I see the rays of sun captured in its veins



And the marks of evaporated raindrops



This is a story that is told

A journey unforgotten

One in a thousand

Butterflies

Will not be forgotten



This wing



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No other single object has inspired me so much, as this one broken wing! And I think, that even in its death, this butterfly has given beauty! I have created so many works of art, thanks to this one little blue, broken wing! An entire collection! I'm overwhelmed by the inspiration that I have received from this small, inanimate thing! Which goes to show, that a wing is always a wing; no matter if it is broken or fallen or forgotten!