Monarch Migration

Beautiful mistakes

Mistakes, mistakes, mistakes

Stuff that makes you late

Kids you couldn't possibly create

All the jobs you couldn't take

yet here we are to face another day

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Sweet child riding on her bike

Smiling and humming

Far out of sight

Away from every care in the world

She's always spinning her Wheels

Trying to find a place to rest

She hasn't really found one yet

She's fixing her flat with a rubber mallet

Looking at the ceiling with a butterfly

Trying to understand just how it flies

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Monarch living just a few weeks

butterfly migration is the key

to your life cycle of ecstasy

flying in colors we can't believe

Even if it's only for a spell

You're a brief and beautiful sprinter

That goes away in splendor

You never stop to remember How-

How short life is, 

you just fly in the now

Just fly in the Now

Just fly in the Now

It doesn't take big brains to figure this one out

One day at a time is all we have

So get back on that bike

and remember that

Butterfly flittering out in front of you

She only has a week or two 

to let her colors shine completely true

Go back out there, and

Show the world what you can do

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Beautiful mistakes

Mistakes, mistakes, mistakes

Stuff that makes you late

Kids you couldn't possibly create

All the jobs you couldn't take

or the women you couldn't date

Yet here we are to face another day

Just fly in the now, and color your cares away

Help me find a place to rest

a drink of water

on a precipice 

if even once in a while

I am a butterfly

buoyed by your smile

Part of a Creative Writing Project: Letters to Geographer 2015-2016