An empty field, a broken tree <br />Divided left and right <br />Nature's course, an unseen force <br />As the storm passed in the night <br /> <br />The butterlies, they have survived <br />Though scarred by time and weather <br />They did flee that broken tree <br />'til found themselves another <br /> <br />The bluebird left it long before <br />To chance upon the wind <br />She got caught up in the storm <br />And lost her way again <br /> <br />We travel on to where we've gone <br />To where we shall go hence <br />To seek a home, to each our own <br />A place of safe content <br /> <br />Feel no regret 'less we forget <br />What was gained along the way <br />Though distant from where we began <br />We still share yesterday <br /> <br />The bluebird finally found a home <br />The butterflies are in flight <br />Nature's course, an unseen force <br />As the storm passed in the night<br /><br />Christopher Thor Britt<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/as-the-storm-passed/
