Butterfly Complex

by Sean Allen   Sep 23, 2005


Well our current situation,
with you waiting night and day,
reminds me of a play written
long ago.

You're no stupid Cho-Cho San,
but you're a Madame Butterfly,
waiting for when the robins
nest again.

Sing to me
this love song medley
and I'll come home. Butterfly,
aren't you free?
free to fly, fly
fly away?
Oh won't you stay
by my side?

Lonely nights dreaming fantasies
of that day when I'll come home
and you'll be there waiting for me;
so please

accept this love song medley.
Oh delicate butterfly,
aren't you free?
Free to fly, fly
fly away?
Oh won't you remain
by my side?

Please don't let this be
that kind of goodbye.

*I don't know if anyone knows about the play called Madame Butterfly, but it is about a Japanese woman who gets married to a guy in the U.S. navy. He leaves her behind with a son, and he goes and gets another woman. Prior to leaving, he promised that he'd return "when the robins nest again." The name of the woman was Cho-Cho san, and Madame Butterfly addresses her delicacy.*

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  • 17 years ago

    by Lovely Bones

    I've never seen the play, but I would like to someday. Good job on creating a poem inspired/based on a famous ballet. Great write!

  • 18 years ago

    by Aken Sol

    Dude, i'm gonna go look up that play now. I think your poem is great btw.

    Aken Sol

  • 18 years ago

    by nikki

    Good poem i really loved it 5/5

  • 18 years ago

    by Drew Gold

    It should be - repeat of the third stanza*.. my fault.. i dunn0 where my head was.. lol ne way pZ out

  • 18 years ago

    by Drew Gold

    Well, sadly i dont think i fully perceived the depth of this, as i dont know the name cho cho san... but other than that, this is really a good poem.. i like the repeat of the third poem, and how it only changes a little in the fifth line.. however.. it seems like the end could use one more line on those particular stanza.. for whatever reason, i think its because of the lines:

    free to fly, fly
    fly away?

    it just seems like the lines would be more fitting with one extra line,.. this is a very smooth read, and i love the lack of rhymes.. i wish i could give you more help, but thats all i can think of.. i admire the way you chose to end it, really captures and wraps the whole feeling of the rest of the poem.. goodjob..

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