He Can't Fly

(a poetic response to the sound of hollyhocks by Hugh Garner)

He is a caterpillar when he was born.

He lives in a cocoon.

His cocoon is too hard.

He will become a butterfly in some day.

There is a butterfly lives in his heart.

The butterfly desires freedom.

He is eager to flap his wings to get the place he wants.

So, he tries to get out of it and becomes a butterfly.

But it doesn’t work.

He begins to feel despair and helpless.

Finally he died in the cocoon.

Even though, he died, he still can’t leave the cocoon.

(the picture comes from:http://www.sthopd.net/ImgX/Butterfly/Named/Sakura_butterfly_against_blue_sky.jpg)