There once was a butterfly without wings

She’d never seen them before

So she knew they weren’t there

 

She fluttered around and always wondered

Why they pointed and smiled at her bare body

She felt wingless and ashamed

 

Until one day she had a child

Who was as wingless as can be

But said she wanted wings as beautiful as her mothers

 

And so the butterfly wept

That’s when she knew that things were only true

If you believed them to be