Pale Butterflies

Pale Butterflies

By

Lisa A.Williams

Feeling freedom through

outstretched wings of

imagination,

soaring over the

green sea

feet still touching soft blades

somehow they knew

they were “flying”.

                                                            Cropped crowns of sun gold

racing against the wind

in the fields

of backyard magic.

Once grounded,

feeling the brittle fall

of harsh words and

 stinging discipline

wings clipped-

yet always there is a wishing

to fly again.