Their beauty sad to say will not last long a few days to live that is all <br />The white butterflies in the garden on this warm day in the Fall <br />So little time in their bloom of beauty to mate and lay their eggs and to fly <br />Around the wildflowers and the flowering bushes when the sun shines bright in the sky <br />Of death they would not have a sense of but a few days in time to them must seem long <br />Their is so much to learn of Nature though Nature keeps proving us wrong <br />So innocent in their great beauty they are as natural as bird song <br />And so soon to return to Nature for to Nature they surely belong, <br />In the sky they seem to be dancing perhaps in a courtship display <br />Of butterfly life i am ignorant and my assumptions a guess anyway <br />As butterflies their's is a brief existence their life span is forty eight hours <br />They will be outlived by most insects and they will be outlived by the flowers <br />In a few days they will be with Nature as Nature takes back <br />what she does create <br />In the sunshine they flit through the garden seemingly quite unaware of their fate.<br /><br />Francis Duggan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/white-butterflies-3/
