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Battered Butterfly

The Story of a Silent Struggle

By DigitalAddiPublished 7 months ago 2 min read

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I was a caterpillar ,

before I became a butterfly .

The pain I had to endure in order to transform into the beauty I am today .

This is my tale .

In the forest there was,

My cocoon wrapped in the finest silk,

With a power to live in a colorful world.

To dream and conquer goals.

A Vivacious soul spinning in the purest silk

Growing and maturing as I spun.

Wishing for freedom with my beautiful wings,

Counting the days to be free and soar

as a lively butterfly

until

You winded into my community

Lured my queen and her uneven monarch.

Tempted to sabotage my purity.

For that you,

Lured yourself into my vulernable cocoon

with that trust,

you decided to disrupt my process.

How can one man ruin my nesting site?

And I had faith in you ,

to be a figure

I never had.

I wanted.

My heart ached for it.

I needed it.

To be loved .

To be nurtured.

To never be like those stray dogs

looking for a home.

This was the moment .

Where....

Innocence stripped, heart captured.

My Freedom gone.

You were naive to comprehend

On what you were doing...

You would stab my cocoon

with your sickening poison .

Over and over you stabbed .

Ruptured the veins of my innocence .

To break my finest silk .

Purity banished.

Stabbing your poison was

Making my cocoon

useless ,

worthless ,

unwanted,

colorless,

I tried to run and I tried to scream

but I was devoured by this poison

It was the love I deserve.

Couldn't escape , numb to the pain

For every poison injected, I began to

Question God?

Where was he ?

when I shed out a tear of help.

Where was he?

when my cocoon was destroyed.

Was I loved God?

when I muffled help in your name.

I hated myself ,

I stay in my cocoon

afraid to see my future.

I wasn't going to be a beautiful butterfly

Battered Butterfly

My life seemed to be colorless

No one wants a battered butterfly

My life....

It seemed it had ended

when poison sunk onto my helpless body .

No one wants a battered butterfly

Imprisoned to these chains.

Being poisoned every night by different

Predators.

Oh God....

Those predators ...

Battered lifeless little butterfly

Was I ever loved in my nesting site?

But then again nobody loves a battered butterfly

How can I reach to heaven when

I was worthless.

Believed I was a vile *****.

Tricked into a poison of hell.

Battered Ugly Butterfly

***** Little butterfly.

There was no light in tunnel

There was no holes in my silk

To escape this poisonous nest.

Why?

Because I believe nobody wants save a battered butterfly

How can the man I trusted ruined me.

I thought you could be the one to complete my lovely monarch .

To complete the missing piece.

But you continued to misuse me.

To haunt me.

To barricade my heart

To own my soul

But one thing I can truly say

You never once won over me.

You never imprinted my change.

I endured your pain

That was a sign of God

To show me what strength I am capable of.

That was the light that I found,

You had no control to inflict pain anymore.

Because I became impervious to your pain.

I am a beautiful butterfly

reigning over my monarch

with no thought of you.

**That is my freedom

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