• Poems on Life
    • Butterfly effect
    • children on the street
    • Come see
    • labelled destiny
    • Relic
    • A tree woke up
    • Heaven will rain
    • Removed from reality
    • Unless We Touch Flowers
    • Drive towards
    • long gone but here
  • Spiritual Poems
    • My thought is now electric
    • I speak in magical metaphor
    • comes the sacred
    • gently astonished
    • The absurd
    • I do not know…
    • mightier wings
    • Only Sun Remain
    • Others Bolder than I
    • Perspectives
    • sprinkle some sun and wait
    • tiny prayers
    • Wear a red sky today
    • Wakened Sea
    • what flowers have found
    • My father spoke to me
    • The Cold
    • Whitman Devastated
  • Urdu Poetry
    • Ho Jai
    • Noorani Roshni
    • Hum Nay Dekha
  • Other Poets
    • Introduction to Poetry
  • Thoughts
    • The Good Atheist
    • Thoughtful vs Literal
    • Levels of Prayer
    • Being Whole-Hearted
    • Debating Feelings
    • You are crafted by events
    • Self-Honesty
    • Love without Analysis
    • Cruel Beliefs
    • Knowing and Believing
    • Good Faith, Bad Faith
    • Unbiased Discussion
    • Faith Without Compassion
    • Peace in the Background
  • Poems on Life
    • Poems on Life 1
      • Butterfly effect
      • children on the street
      • Come see
      • labelled destiny
      • Relic
      • A tree woke up
    • Poems on Life 2
      • Heaven will rain
      • Removed from reality
      • Unless We Touch Flowers
      • Drive towards
      • long gone but here
  • Spiritual Poems
    • Spiritual Poems 1
      • My thought is now electric
      • I speak in magical metaphor
      • comes the sacred
      • gently astonished
      • The absurd
      • I do not know…
    • Spiritual Poems 2
      • mightier wings
      • Only Sun Remain
      • Others Bolder than I
      • Perspectives
      • sprinkle some sun and wait
      • tiny prayers
    • Spiritual Poems 3
      • Wear a red sky today
      • Wakened Sea
      • what flowers have found
      • My father spoke to me
      • The Cold
      • Whitman Devastated
  • Urdu Poetry
    • Noorani Roshni
    • Hum Nay Dekha
    • Ho Jai
  • Other Poets
    • Introduction to Poetry
  • Thoughts
    • Thoughts 1
      • The Good Atheist
      • Thoughtful vs Literal
      • Levels of Prayer
      • Being Whole-Hearted
      • Debating Feelings
    • Thoughts 2
      • You are crafted byevents
      • Self-Honesty
      • Love without Analysis
      • Cruel Beliefs
      • Knowing and Believing
    • Thoughts 3
      • Good Faith, Bad Faith
      • Unbiased Discussion
      • Faith Without Compassion
      • Peace in the Background

Butterfly effect

January 25, 2010

a butterfly is such a delicate thing
with gossamer wings frailer still
but don’t you dare hurt a butterfly
for if you do it surely will
scream in its own hopeless way
flap and flap and flap its tiny wings
and hurricanes will suddenly  be born
enraged by pain in the butterfly’s heart
retribution descending from a torn sky
and someone somewhere will learn to cry


And if you  stamp on the souls of the poor
they will hide their wretched pain
no one will bother, neither you nor I
but the butterfly within their souls
will cringe and be pierced with grief
souls will flap and flap their wings
multiplying mega times the hurt within
the worlds themselves will collide
mountains will crumble or be raised
joy will leave life and heavens forever fade

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Poems on Life

Ali Ghaznavi

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ruby
January 28, 2010 at 1:06 am

I really like it as delicate, yet powerfull. Very sensitive poetry.



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