The Actor, The Villain, The Butterfly

I enjoy having the ability to post my original poems on Medium. Posting poems on this forum is the beginning of a new journey for me. The poem below considers death as a human condition, a condition of all life, really. But for humankind death is something that is central to how we think about living; unlike perhaps other creatures that live unencumbered by philosophical irritations that distract from simply getting on with…