The Butterfly

(For Indrina)
 

The Last Butterfly

flew out from the west

 
a last flutterfly

withdrew from its nest

 
where now to fly

what course is best

 
how now to live

whither to rest
 

*

 
All Nature

wondered
 

skies rumbled

and thundered
 

some Tie had

sundered
 

was this a Test
 
*

 
The silence did wail

the heavens did pale

 
Evolution paused

had Selection failed?
 

this was no Jest
 
*
 

Follow her forth

but clear first her Way

 
let her free passage

to set ease her day
 

for she is departing

a vanishing guest
 

*
 
She weaves to the right

no mate in sight
 

she looks to the earth

she looks to the sky
 

so beauteous a day

she lets fall a sigh
 

she hangs on a breeze

then drops to the seas
 

her silent appealings

could she have feelings–

 
there’s none to address
 

*
 

She flies no longer

not far from shore

 
Her ilk now banished

she flits no more
 

gone is the glory

Of light-winged joy
 

what comes after

species ahoy
 
*
 
In world of abundance

in world of allure
 

we come lately

made Nature be poor
 

no wonder she is

not a little vexed

 
*
 
Nature repairs

but what she can bear

 
so let’s get ready

can we be next
 

yes have no doubt

I but read from The Text
 

we shall be next

 
[©R.Kanth 2023]

Professor Rajani Kanth, is Author of Coda (A Novel), A Day in the Life (Novel), Expiations (Verse), and Farewell to Modernism (Political Economy Tract).