Metamorphosis

By BurningFireWithin

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"You do not cease to exist just because I wish you to." Started: 4/3/20 Finished: 8/20/20 My 6th poetry book. More

Intro
Loving For Less
Happy Easter
Existence
Effort is Attractive
Same Tree Different Apples
Fall Nights
I Don't (Have Self) Care
Monarch Butterflies
Strong Beliefs
Love Poems
Mental Illness
What We Could've Been
Do You Think About Leaving?
Not Enough Anymore
The Accuser Who Plays Victim
I Doubt You Are Haunted By These Things
Blood Money
Theft
Soulmate
My Soulmate
You Never Asked Me
When I See Everything
Social Norms
Lust for Love
Our Forever
Quiet Boy
Not You Part Two
Don't Take Advantage Again
That Girl
The Best For Me
I Miss High school
Connect the Dots (to Words)
Passionate
Failure
Pulling My Strings
Love Like Molasses
Metamorphism
7 Billion People -7 People
When I Am Not Around
Light Up
Mirror Neurons
Placebos
Political
I Want a Man
Rapists Living Life
When Will She Notice?
Nightmares
Hand Towel
Another Archaic Love Story
I Am Burning
Your Mother
Using
Bullshit
Different Love
Sand Dollar
Oversized T-Shirts
Fighting For You
Anger I Fear
Control
In My Sleep
Your Beliefs (Or Lack Of)
The Weight You Placed On Me
When I Thought Infatuation Was Love
A "Hopeless" Cause
Survivors (Guilt) Pain
Prayers For Only You
I Would Lose It If I Never Heard From You Again
Stages of Grief
Notifications
My Necklace Is A Prayer
I'll Never Let Go
Experience Everything
How I Love Part One
How I Love Part Two
Faces
Signs of Attraction
Covid Love
When You Ask Me All The Right Questions
Playing House
Small Town
Mixed Signals
The Only One Sober
Innocently Intoxicated
Differences in Love
False Promises
I Think I Am Strong
Everything Can Surface My Past
Therapy Talks
Cope With No Coping Skills
Conditioned To You
Seasonal
I Will Never Be Satisfied
Riding The Breaks
Coffee
Things You Don't Have To Think About
Trust
The Ending
The Fish

Viceroy Butterflies

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By BurningFireWithin

Victories copy monarchs in order to avoid predation.

I'm a viceroy but with a different goal, one where I mimic the one you love in hopes of attracting you.

Here I am, outlining my eyes in dark eyeliner with every makeup look.
Are my circles and lines traces of hers?

I'm throwing my head back when I laugh so maybe my voice will ring off the walls in a beautiful A cappella like hers.
Does the sound call to you?

~Do I give you butterflies, my dear?

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