一気に寒くなってしまって
私のアゲハくんたちは
この寒さを乗りきれるとは
思えない
昼間、庭ではシジミチョウが
ひらひら 遊んでたけど
冬将軍は
お構いなしにやって来ている
サナギの茶色い皮を
破って 一生けん命はい出て
やっと蝶になったのが
昨日だったから その思い出が
強過ぎて 心が痛い
でも、感動を与えてくれたこと
そのことは 絶対に忘れない
君たちの 弟 妹が
まだ ３０匹はいるから
しっかり見守って
来春まで大事にするね
命って
ホントに、ほんとに大事にしたい
は～
くそ～
（あと、一週間 遅く寒くなってくれれば～くく～）
そんな気持ちを今夜は
書いてみました
私の大事なアゲハくんへのお手紙です
今夜の Ｅ－ｖｅｒｓｉｏｎ Ｄｅａｒ Ｍｙ Ｂｕｔｔｅｒｆｌｉｅｓ
ど～ぞ～
三毛猫詩人
ＰＳ
でも、昼間、ミカンの枝には 尺取り虫くんもいて
むしゃむしゃ まだまだ元気に葉っぱを食べていたよ
みんな、がんばれい～
Dear My Butterflies
The air is getting cold and we have such a chilly autumn evening tonight.
Our harsh winter is, unfortunately, just around the corner. It is a little bit earlier than last year.
(I hate this...!)
Now, I am alone in my room (Your siblings are sleeping in a corridor). The clock on the wall is ticking rhythmically.
Tick-tack-tick-tack, as time goes by. We cannot stop time, I am fully aware of this.
Right.
Someday we will die, no matter how hard we try to avoid it. Birth and death comes to us all (not only to you, my dear butterflies).
That is the universal law of life. I have no difficulty in accepting it.
My dearest Butties.
Luckily, it’s warm in here.
Yet, as my windows are shuttered by the blast, I can imagine how cold it is outside.
(You are there, which I can never accept with total calmness.)
I’m thinking about you, my beautiful butterflies.
That you left me one by one, for the past few days.
I know that all of you were asked by Mother Nature to make a big decision.
She gave you a gentle nudge to turn into adults, before it got too cold.
I understand that you just followed her and came out.
Nothing was wrong with you. I would never blame you, but…
I have no idea where you are now.
Although you have given me such a joy and courage, you are no longer here.
I miss you, and am worried about you. Are you alright?
No, I won’t forget the time and the pleasure that we shared together since you were such small boys.
(Some of you were still inside your eggs. You were such a small and fragile creature.)
Remember that you made me smile and laugh by moving awkwardly with your heads high and tails shaking?
Do you know how many times you surprised and amazed me by the wonders that you had shown me?
You can mimic yourself to the tangerine leaves so easily!
The tone of your skin color was amazingly similar to the environment where you were.
How often I wished I could stop you when you started your wander frantically to spot the best place to become pupas?
You have given me one of the most touching moments that I had never had in my life.
You know that?
I should not be worried or sad about you, even if you may be no longer on this earth, my lovely butterflies.
Because you are a product of Mother Nature, I am 100 percent certain that you will come back to me someday soon (Next April?!).
You are always in my heart, what may come.
I will take care of your siblings so that they can inherit what you have brought to us
That is, what I shall call, ‘Possibility’.
Yes, I do believe in the possibility that you will come back to me on a warm bright spring day.
See you soon then, my wonderful beautiful and precious butterflies.
Good-bye for now...please sleep well in peace. With deepest love.
Your Poet Calico Cat
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There are things we can change, and things that we just have to accept.