Moth fluttering through my window

Attracted to my naked bulb of light

Tracked by the trick of time

Fooled by deceit of the night

Wavering your fragile wings

Skimming past the window frame

For a brief moment, your life sings

Beating frantically to a tune untamed

Wings as sleek as a butterfly’s

But untreasured and scorned

Both hide in their own disguise

One colorful, one unadorned

But in the moonlight

Butterflies sleep

Waiting until sunrise

To prove their keep

Moths rise to meet the moon

Striving for that hopeful flight

Impossible quest to find Noon

To become One with the Light

Burn yourself up in the pyre

Fragile creature bold & bright

In one blazing flame of fire

Rather than surrender to the night

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