Just a few days to mate lay her eggs and then die <br />A minute to her an hour to you and I <br />She flits through the parkland in the sunlit sky <br />With brown spots on her fragile wings a white butterfly <br />Unlike a bird she does not have a song to sing <br />Yet the wonders of Nature are an amazing thing <br />A beautiful flying insect in the warm lamp of day <br />In a few days at the most with Nature she will lay <br />In only a day she will have reached her life's prime <br />And a few days to live does not seem much in time <br />On silent wings she dances in the park in the warm Summer air <br />To look at so gentle and fragile and fair <br />In the parkland green and lush after the recent showers <br />She dances around the blossoming trees and the flowers.<br /><br />Francis Duggan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-white-butterfly/
