Harlequin Sun God Moth

Tim stretches on his narrow cot 
deep in basement of teeming city. 
Purple spiders weave rainbow ladders 
through liquid fiber of his ceiling. 

I was a moth who found light 
and my body became flashing bulb. 
Thousand moths gathered around me 
thinking I was a glass bulb god. 
My belly was striped like Harlequin 
my arms pulled rabbits from their brains. 

But I was wound up inside a cocoon 
and was born butterfly of gold and green. 
I flew away and still other moths 
flutter around empty shell cocoon 
as if it were sun and world savior. 

I am happy at last to be alone. 
Cat on his stomach yawns and purrs. 

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