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I'm taken back...
During the summer
Family Picnic,
A butterfly is found
On the bark of a tree.
Little girls like to touch
Things they think are cute
"Is it hurt?"
I tell them:
"It's going to die;
When you touch their wings,
It kills them."
My uncle overhears,
And says in the way that adults do,
Immediately informing me
That I've been imprudent.
"How do you know that?
Do you know anything about Biology?"

I'm taken back...
The next summer,
We talk about that Uncle Brad,
And my mother,
Who knows anything about medicine,
Sobs.
©2005-2009 ~taliesin1016
:icontaliesin1016:

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I wrote this all out in my head on the walk home from ashley's today
both of these memories haunt me.

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:icondementedlynx:
:( That's sad, yet written brilliantly. I feel odd complementing and noting the emotional impact, but it's true.

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