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Nov  2008

The Butterfly with Invisible Colours
a poem

by Amit Parmessur

Copyright © 2008 Amit Parmessur. All rights reserved.

Aged 24 and won the Scooptheloot Short Humour contest in November 2003. One of the regular contributors to The Short Humour Site. Just published 'The Words I Loved' in Mauritius, which is my first personal anthology. Published several times in local youth collections.

 

I was not made the time when God had nothing to do.

I may be a mountain without a true mount.

I may be at times an egg without a yolk.

I may be a butterfly with

Invisible colours.

I may have lost faith in not only God

but in myself as well.

This does not mean that this

world and its tentacles have defeated me.

I have not said my last words.

I will start flying again

And spread my colours everywhere

and invite all happy souls to join me again.

I may be a squid without black ink.

But this does not mean I

will be trapped in the hook called failure.

I may be like drops in the desert.

Or just like a flowing river hitting

the cruel wall of life and

smashed into dead drops.

Drops cannot flow.

I shall assemble myself and fly.

I am a nightingale. With a sweet gale.

I shall assemble myself

and fly past this period of invisibility.

It’s not that I have not said my last word.

I haven’t said even my first words.

 

Contact the Author - ameet_p23@yahoo.co.uk 

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