MARIPOSA

It is as dark as a freshly burnt piece of charcoal. 

It is used when the water level is too high for people to swim 

or when there is just too much rain people can’t breathe, 

when a flood has come 

everyone is drowning in their own fears and doubts. 

It is unrefined and coarse 

you must must be very careful 

as it will cut your skin easily. 

In the sunrise 

from holding its sharp edges view its rainbow colors. 

It looks unbreakable and sharp 

it is extremely fragile.

 If you drop it it will shatter 

never to be seen again.