By Tom McKelvey
Date: 26 January 1999

Butterfly

I never asked
                  For you to be
My butterfly
                  To wait for me
I never said
                  Your ship would come
With smoke rising
                  On morning's sun
I never called
                  You "little wife"
Or asked you to
                  Devote your life
To waiting on
                  A hill for me
Yet still you say
                 "Keep faith and see"

(some text from Madame Butterfly-Puccini)
-Tom McKelvey-