Little Butterfly

"Do you remember the story about the butterfly?"
How it soared way up into the eastern sky
and the wind took its delicate wings across the ocean;
a wish fulfilled to be free and alive on the other side,
away from this, on the other side
of these every-changing tides.

"Do you remember the story about the butterfly?
I always thought I could go anywhere alone.
But since I met you I've realized I'm weak.
I can't fly all by myself.
I can't go anywhere without you anymore."

She said it, Hinako Takanaga,
I read it in a cute manga
And fell in love with the concept
that we could be butterflies, you and I,
and we could fly together and defy everything
and care about nothing but each other at the same time.

The season is summer, my dear,
as Takanaga said...when the young butterflies
are just beginning to flutter through the air.
The season is summer, my dear,
when we break from the shell and flutter
through the lazy days like nothing could stop us....
anyway...the season is summer and we're together.
So, I can fly.

Be my little butterfly, won't you?
Because I'm afraid to fly on my own...
Especially now, when I am at home.