The Language of Butterflies: the Path of Attachment by Alysse Aallyn

Assess your potential to connect. We wake alone, but we are on the path of Attachment. Ask yourself; do you seek balanced, indestructible attachment, synchronous, not disharmonic relationship; a connection that is symbiotic, not exploitative. If the answer is Yes, you are on the path of Paradise.

How can we achieve these goals? First, we must understand and accept our Self, our Ego, with all its quirks and flaws, needs and yearnings, limits and possibilities. Then we must understand the Other; the Lover. We must attune ourselves to the structure of their yearning to begin to construct our duet, our dance. After that we must negotiate the rapids of relationship with each other and with the outside world. Danger! Excitement! Ecstasy! Despair…Compassion.
Union.

We are caterpillars, you and I, attempting to learn the language of butterflies. We are unprepossessing creatures, daily absorbed in infantile needs of eating and excreting, but we have a firm promise of a future in which we stretch our gorgeous wings.

Paradise

Without eyes

Ambitious goldfish float

Dream of skies

Where fins are wings

Lily pads are clouds

Swollen tight

as seed pearls; gullets

Safe forever from

vengeful squid or

Killer waves.

Who can say if in their time of death

Those dreams don’t live

Bursting skin;
Trailing comets,

Scattering scales like stars

Spilling the pond and soaring limitless

To be whales

To be gods

To be free?