Medieval Chapel by Bill Wilhelms

A representation of a butterfly discovered in a medieval chapel... its wings painted a lustrous red flew suddenly from the gentle hands of a representation of an elderly priest within the fresco. It alighted upon the gentle hands of a young girl who was within the chapel, imagining the tender kisses of her beloved.

An eternity passed and for a moment the butterfly spiraled and danced in the serene air falling again into the father’s hands once more - all was silent the girl shed tears, clasping imaginings – in her knuckles, and fell to the dust, laughing- noticing, suddenly upon the impregnable earth, a single tear of lustrous red.