Because You Matter

By: KitTEASe Creations

Inside a small hole

Down the mountainside, there lives

A wilted flower

Once with friends, now all alone   

Torn apart by gusts of wind

 

A few months ago,  

Beginning of a journey

Leaving behind home

Sisters and brothers, they go

A new life, one full of hopes 

 

Thrilling every day            

Wherever the wind took them

One by one they found

Landing on forever homes  

And then there was only one

 

Still a long journey

Growing sadder and lonely

Have not found a place

Then one day, it hears a cry 

Of help from a house below

 

And as if drawn in,

A wind lowers it inside 

Through window it cries

“Please help me, I’m stuck in here

She doesn’t think I’m ready 

 

“One night she found me

My tears masked by drops of rain 

Felt loving Comfort                   

Wrapped my wings, healing began        

I was devoted to her 

 

“The days became weeks 

Weeks became months, and I was

As sad as I was

After I sang a goodbye

Song, ready for departure

 

“One clear afternoon

Bright sun, clouds and gentle wind       

Friendly butterflies

Saw others like me, but none

Were my mother, and I flew

 

“She saw and cried out                  

Asked why, begged for my return

Why do you leave me?

‘I need you,’ she said with tears. 

‘You’re the only friend that I have’

 

“Saddened, I went back  

Where I was once free in a 

Big room, I was then

Locked up in a cage so small

Day after day like a thing

 

“Could not spread my wings 

Cannot, it hurts, want and need

Out, to stretch them out

Want to fly, I want to be 

Free, before I go crazy

 

“She opens the cage 

Twice every day to feed me”

“That’s when we go out

I will help you distract her”

“How? She is very guarded”

 

So the time has come 

And with a flap of his wings

It was up in air 

It landed on her eyes, then 

“It’s now! Go! Fly out” it said

 

And so he flew out

He flapped his wings once again

It was lifted and 

Landed on his strong white wings

Her cries becoming distant 

Air, wind are lighter, 

Gentler, than when in the cage 

Finally he's free 

Free again, fresh, warm, and clean 

Sun bathing them both

 

They flew high, through clouds 

The sun rays warming the two 

“Where will you go now?”

“Back home, where my mother is”

And so their venture goes on 

 

Until a wind gust

Swept off the wing, it flew off 

“Goodbye, see you soon”

To the next journey, it went

“Goodbye my friend, and thank you”

 

Days have become weeks

Weeks have then turned into months

Since their encounter

One day, a rumor has spread

About this lonely flower

 

Inside a small hole

Down the mountainside, there lives

A wilted flower

Once with friends, now all alone   

Torn apart by gusts of wind

 

In a dark, cold hole

Behind a cold, heavy stream 

In came a bird, a

Very familiar bird 

“Hello, my friend” the bird knew

 

The wilted flower

Once a seedling that had helped

Has saddened the bird

Now is in pain, lots of pain

Loneliness and depression

 

“Had I only known

Sorry couldn’t come sooner

You are my true friend

Now it’s my turn to help you

You are getting out with me”

 

“To where? They hate me 

 Only a weed, not welcomed”

“Sorry that happened”

“I’m deeply rooted, it hurts”

“It’s not true, that’s why I’m here”

 

The bird picked it up

Turned around and flew away

This time with his friend 

Clouds parted as they flew up

Rainbow shimmering in sky

 

“Where I live, there is

Luscious green, fountain of youth,

Flowers everywhere

Each and every one different 

Bright colors, beautiful shapes” 

 

Clouds again parted 

Gliding down among sun rays 

“And that’s where I live, 

Oasis, you’re not alone

You are a flower to me

 

Because you matter.”