Trivial

[onemoremile]

incredibly cliched poem, but it's the holidays, i'm bored, and i have nothing to inspire me, so here we go:


Trivial

‘of only small importance’ – Oxford dictionary

Sometimes, just sometimes, I wonder why
You flutter around like a butterfly
Well, I don’t mind when you land on me
I just wish you wouldn’t flutter your butter
at what we see

Pale pretty butterfly
Flutter butter, flutter butter,
Jerky, but so delicate you’re elegant
The bobbing motion just helps your innocence
Blinding the world
Playing on their ignorance,
Make them trust you
Make them love you;
Pure innocent creature
Your magic worked on me…
Flutter butter, flutter butter
Dancing on the wind.
But the butterfly life is short,
And you’ve gone now, wilted
The flutter butter innocence left
With my stutter shutter ignorance.
The real world shutter-blocked
Voices stutter-silence
Still your flutter-flight whisks me away
Yet your butter-blunder trips me,
Sliding down, slipping down
Till the ignorance has left
And the butterfly life has died

Sometimes, just sometimes, I wonder why
You flutter around like a butterfly
Well, sometimes it hurts when you land on me
So please don’t flutter your butter
at all we see

[Robin]

I like it all except for the "flutter your butter" parts. It makes it sound really childish and Doctor Seuss-y, and just sort of turns me off the poem.

"Jerky, but so delicate you’re elegant"

A particularly beautiful line. 'Delicate' and 'elegant' almost rhyme; almost. It's so close and so far away it it rolls off the tongue really easily and in a really good rhythm.