WHEN BUTTERFLIES COLLIDE

a thousand mixed emotions
with a million different hues
it will make your body twitchy
cause your psyche to confuse

a waterfall of wonder
crashes down into a pool
full of dark and dirty water
searing heat dissolves the cool

you're questioning the landscape
as you zigzag side to side
it's an wondrous sense of overload
when butterflies collide

behind you, the familiar
but its features have turned strange
yet the future's winking at you
with its promises of change

though you question the upheaval
you then tense your legs to spring
you must rise from the detritus
that has smothered everything

when it's gravity you're fighting
it can be a brutal ride
but you need to keep on focusing
when butterflies collide