--- title: Life is Like A Butterfly date: 2008-08-19T10:18:25Z modified: 2020-06-08T14:47:06Z permalink: "https://www.poetryoflife.com/life-is-like-a-butterfly/" type: post status: publish excerpt: "" wpid: 377 categories: - Love Poems tags: - Love Poems - butterfly featured_image: "https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/woman-wearing-fairy-costume.jpg" featured_image_alt: Life is Like A Butterfly author: Praveen Kumar timestamp: 2020-06-08T14:47:06Z --- ![Life is Like A Butterfly](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/woman-wearing-fairy-costume.jpg) slowly waking up from the fantasy of a dream my hand searches in vain for the [dream](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/its-just-like-a-dream.md) to be a reality dreams are like a flower only when they [bloom](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/bloom-once-again.md) we realize how wonderful it can be! or how horrible its going to be! i sit upon a [dream](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/dream-weaver.md) patiently waiting for it to bloom nurtured it for a long time, with all things good! time, i have spent! love, i have given lots of! hope, i have infused into it! confidence, i have plenty of it! from a cocoon that i built around myself i changed into a beautiful little butterfly waiting to soar into the light of the day taking my [dream](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/dream.md) along with me! perched on the flower that is now my [dream](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/fishing-for-a-dream-part-2.md), i wait for it to bloom to seal my fate – life or [death](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/death-to-all-my-friends.md)! – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – The life cycle is a butterfly is normally 2 – 4 weeks. Likewise, dreams dont last a lifetime. Before we know it, the dream is long dead! and sometimes(almost all the time) so are we! – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever. ~Carl Sagan A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly – Andre Gide Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. – Nathaniel Hawthorne – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –