NOT 'IDIOT'

Sweetheart, your name is not ‘idiot’

Little one, what they said was so wrong

You know something?
Some beautiful thing?
Together we’re infinitely strong
Let’s hide under this blanket

Sweetheart, you will be a butterfly
Right now you can’t see it just yet
So come here and cry
And then we will try
And after a small while I bet
Together we will fly real high

You want to know a secret, my child?
We will be butterflies now very soon
We emerge from this bed
And that ‘idiot’ they said
We’ll shrug off, and fly to the moon
We are free child, wonderful, and wild.

© Darren White