It takes a lot of time
Not to step on a crack,
And break a mothers’ back.

Much less time
To break it.

It takes a lot of time
To watch the wing jerks of butterflies,
Without disrupting wing’s ethereal dust.

Much less time
Than to crush it.

It takes a lot of time
To break the back of freedom,
But it happens, all the time.

Much less times
Than to filter it…

Erin Elizabeth Kelly-Moen
© Copyright 7/20/09