Rabbit recollects a past event

"Morning Butterfly", Rabbit says,

"Why you look so worried",

"I' m concerned about the loss of so many lives" (insects), Butterfly answers,

"Let me tell you what we once discovered", continues Rabbit

"You remember us dancing in the dancehall next to the casino?"

"Oh yes, replies Butterfly, and looks up to Rabbit,

"It was a dance from Vienna".

Quite right, says Rabbit

And what happened then?, asks Rabbit

"Well", says Butterfly, "you asked me what was happening"

And I said, "there is only music"

"and what more", you continued

"Just movement without borders", I replied.

"Right again"

We were just dancing without beginning

and without an end.

You and I disappeared into movement

disappeared into music"

"Only turning right, right right again

as if we were standing still."

Butterfly got a smile on her face

that reached even the top of her wings

Without noticing

the wind had carried her away

on her wings....

copyright John Dirk Hellingman