" I Never Saw Another Butterlfy"
I never saw another butterfly.
the last, the very last,
so richly, brightly, dazzling yellow.
perhaps if the sun's tears sing against a white stone...
such,
such a yellow,
is carried lightly 'way up high.
it went away, I'm sure, because it wished to kiss the world goodbye.
for seven weeks i have lived here,
Penned up inside this Ghetto,
But, I have found my people here.
the dandilions call to me,
And the white chesnut candles in the court.
Only, i never saw another butterfly.
That butterfly was the last one.
Butterflies don't live here in the ghetto...
this poem if from the short story called," i never saw another buftterfly". we are currently reading and doing monologues from it for Drama class. this was the monologue i picked for it. A young girl named Raja wrote this while in the Ghetto Terezin. the whole of her loved ones are murdered by the Nazis and i think the butterfly is symbolic for Hope...hope is gone for the children of Terezin.
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