The Suffering of the Butterfly

Everyone has a place in this godforsaken world
The ballerina gets beaten and tortured and twirled 

The gloomy Eeyore has nothing to look up for  
As the butterfly's heart is eaten and torn
 
The blood of the innocent has been drained
Time for the scarecrow to find another brain
 
Watch as the lonely night turns into stone
As the lovers twist and turn and moan
And the sidewalks cracks in the way
Of the innocent butterfly.

-M.V.W. 2009