<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=419956" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Butterfly</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A caterpillar had the feeling</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That change was coming</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That time was stealing.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To embrace the metamorphosis </div><div style="margin:10px 0">It wove a cocoon around its chest</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And choose our wall to take its rest.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The young are thoughtless, often cruel</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And I was no exception.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I would have destroyed it but</div><div style="margin:10px 0">for Frankie’s intervention.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Frankie lived in the corner house</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He was older and quite wise.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He taught me that this green cocoon</div><div style="margin:10px 0">would change into a butterfly.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He bade me watch, he had me wait</div><div style="margin:10px 0">to see the wonder taking shape.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We saw the Monarch first take wing</div><div style="margin:10px 0">once caterpillar, now a King.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Several summers passed us by.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I still lived but Frankie died-</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He was just eighteen, Young and brave</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A landmine put him in his grave.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He died just before Saigon’s fall</div><div style="margin:10px 0">His name’s inscribed upon the Wall</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Corporal Frank Evangelista Junior, </div><div style="margin:10px 0"> beloved by mother and mourned by sister.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A terrible loss when Frankie died-</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He might have been a butterfly.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> </div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0">(The incident with the Butterfly happened in 1960. Lance Corporal Frank Paul Evangelista jr.USMC died during the Vietnam war when a landmine blew up his jeep. I recall he died in March of 1969, but I altered the time lines slightly(using my poetic license) .. Had he emerged from the experience of war, he may have proved to be a great man.)</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+F.+McCullagh">John F. McCullagh</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=419956" data-title="Butterfly de John F. McCullagh" data-description="A caterpillar had the feeling That change was coming That time was stealing. To embrace the metamorphosis It wove a cocoon around its chest And choose our wall to take its rest. The young are thoughtless, often cruel And I was no except..."></div> </div> </div>

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