Dad's advice

a nightmare
my loved ones dead
so much destroyed
upon waking I realized
all that was gone
all who were gone
the dream was real

convinced to talk
I cried as we walked
my hand tight
around his hand

a butterfly appeared
on this chilly spring morning
fluttered in my husband's face
stopped us on the sidewalk

At this time
I am dead,
but don't cry,
I am also here.
I am also there,
in the little house
with the four o'clocks.
Anywhen you want to be,
I am also there.

I see,
I see you,
I see you alive and free
as a blue butterfly
with no time and no space
separating us