Butterfly I will have your beauty as mine
I’ll pin your wings back in a shadowbox
Hang you on the wall to dry
You should have stayed a slug
Your vanity transformed you

Darling I will have the best bits of you
Your years meant to experience
I will turn to glass like an atomic blast
So when you look back
You will only see yourself, just older
You should have never grown up
No matter the nightmare or the things that go bump in the night
Innocence feels better than bitterness, better than this

This is what I am
An undiscovered monster
Who doesn’t like smiles so much for happiness
As he does for teeth
I was born with a full set you see and instead of kicking
My mother felt grinding
I still grind my teeth, but only when I sleep
And when I wake up I have desert sand in my mouth
Destruction on my mind and
A raw oblivion poem on my lips