I'm giving you this butterfly
Because of what it means;
The amazing thing
About butterflies
is the way
They get their wings;

See, butterflies start out
as very different things;
Each one enduring hardships,
But to this hope
it clings;

One day it will become,
despite setbacks
from the start;
No longer a nothing creature~
but the love of someone's heart;

If, by chance, you see one~
For that one brief moment pause,
And watch it floating by,
remembering this, because;

You too are like the butterfly
Having endured so many things,
Making beauty out of heartache
Turning obstacles into wings;

You truly are a miracle
and I think that you should know~
It's not the things that happen,
but, how we learn to grow; because

In the end what makes us
beautiful and why~
Is not the way we started,
but in how we learned to fly.

R.Lee