Catching Butterflies🦋

By Dipshikha Das

To tell you a wish and a secret

Trying to catch you (Dear butterfly)

I forget Butterflies don't get caught

Unless they want to

Everyone says you'll (Dear butterfly) come to me

When the time is right

When the time is ripe

Believing their words with skepticism

Acceptance comes for a fleeting moment

Having seen no alternative

My heart fills with a teeny tiny hope

Some search for you (Dear butterfly)

Some don't search for you

Some pretend they don't search for you

Some find you

Some come across many of you

It makes me forget

Butterflies won't land on me

Unless they want to

It makes me forget

Butterflies won't stay

Unless they want to

It makes me forget

I ain't an omniscient

Growing up

Realisation hit me

You are my yearn for (Dear butterfly)

Unconditional inclusion

Unconditional fondness

Unrestrained fondness

Unrelenting fondness

Unending fondness

They say ignorance is a bliss

But sometimes

It makes me forget

You won't come to me (Dear butterfly)

Unless you want to

Tell me what it takes (Dear butterfly)

To let you go

By Dipshikha Das