Poems by T.J. Swisher

Reflection: Inspirational Verse

read the parable
      of butterfly wings and God,
           yet it seems it's the cut cocoon for me,
                  with wings deformed and shriveled
     is this the beauty Angelou speaks of?
maybe some never get to the beauty
       only to the struggle,
even when people smile and laugh
        the beauty won't be seen
              and certainly it's forgotten,
                      so internally the story
             will remain to be bared,
and the inspiration invoked
    by Angelou's words
        will remain at the threshold
          of a traditional archetypal story
      to be read and heard only
in the attic spaces of an arcadia mind.


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