Transition for the Worst

• Artist: What the Dickens
• Description: This is a poem, short and sweet.
  It's got a butterfly metaphor in it, sorry if that's not your thing.
• Date: 09/27/2009
• Tags: missed calls poem metaphor butterfly

A butterfly on the nape of my neck
Irritated skin, hair raised in anticipation
Deliver me from the suspense
Of coming and going; calling and stalling
Leave a voicemail with a whisper fainter than my ears can hear
With shallow breathing like a moth;
Can you even flutter like you used to?