Someone who knows their self. A person who loves easily and is capable of loving others. Someone who will hold me all night long, whisper the stars into my dreams, then fly me away on wings created with beauty.
He must be adventurous, excitement seeking, willing to go on the next journey any moment. Someone who is gentle yet rough. A risk taker. Loves piercings and tattoos. I want to be stunned with intellect. An original soul.
I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
Anais Nin
The Butterfly Collector
Born into the world, a butterfly, exquisitely sensitive, vulnerable, beautiful, fragile.
She takes to the air to celebrate creation, the gift of her life, and to express and experience the birthright of freedom.
The collector (Prof: mg, o.., xyz, cert, psych, etc) interested in, fascinated by, ignorant of, the way of the butterfly, nets her and takes her from the natural environment back to his laboratory.
In captivity, she is disorientated and fearful. She struggles to be free.
He observes her, recording the “peculiarities of her behaviourâ€, important for his research.
He administers a measured chemical solution, hydrochloric acid.
Heavily sedated, she ceases to struggle.
He examines her psychedelic wings, “intriguingâ€.
He inserts a sterilised needle into and through her thorax and pins her to a one-dimensional surface…. her spirit breaks.
He attaches a label to her.
He is satisfied. She is categorised.
She is placed within a case and displayed behind glass.
He has his prize…another one to add to his collection.
How clever he is.
What an extraordinary specimen.
by: Aidan Shingler