When I was a child with ignorance,
in the woods, I ran after the butterflies.
Thinking, “It’s meant for me.”
I tried hard to catch till I fell on the grass

I wondered, why I was not able to catch the butterfly?
I asked my friends and they only laughed.
Later, when I lied on the grass in the woods,
a butterfly came and sat on my hand.

I wondered again and was puzzled,
then suddenly I realized,
“Beautiful things in Life can’t be achieved by effort,
they just happen.”

Love- is like a butterfly.
If you try to possess it, hoard it,
it never comes to you,
don’t hoard, don’t possess, don’t desire
and suddenly ‘it’ happens and it happens for eternity.

The realization has given me a new insight.
Now, I am the same child but,
not with ignorance,
but with innocence and understanding.

And the butterfly???
it’s still there in my heart.
No more I have to run and
no more I have to “watch” it with a crooked eye.