Sisyphean Attempts at Self-Improvement

Now I am become Butterfly

The simple and unassuming butterfly
         so infinitely capable of mass destruction

Hurricane-force whirlwinds
         swirl and twirl in the aftermath
                   of one beat of its sheer wings

How can it be
         so blissfully unaware
                   of the chaos it sows with every move

Unless the blissfully unaware
         simple and unassuming butterfly
                   is really just a beautiful,
                             delicate obliterator.
                                       A destroyer of worlds.


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13 lines

FORM: Free Verse

PROMPTS: A butterfly as a villain + glimmering, whirlwind (you only need to choose one word to use) + two lines in your poem must either use only one-syllable words or no one-syllable words.

Written for "Cards Against Authors"