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Butterfly


 

A butterfly flapped its wings in Italy

To taste a sweeter flower

It fought the wind that guided it

Only to find its nectar sour

 

I wanted to dance with my lover

and so I waited and waited for a better song

But a butterfly flapped its wings in Italy

And now my lovers gone

 

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