Pockets Full of Posies

Fluttershy looks in the mirror
hoping to see a little clearer
some version of herself she doesn’t hate;
maybe then this hollowness will abate.

And as she stares into the reflection,
seeing every imperfection,
she’s struck with an image
of the changelings’ colorful new visage.

And like Rarity the unicorn
following her horn
to her destiny of a rock,
Fluttershy feels a shock.

She thinks of the Breezies’ blue flower,
and of love given power.
She thinks of her friends,
and finally her self-hatred ends.

She looks again in the mirror to see… something new:
Wings of petal-pink, jewel eyes of blue,
carapace yellow as a bee,
topped with two teal antennae.

She doesn’t know what she is but
she loves herself now no matter what.
Still, before this ends,
Fluttershy will have to tell her friends.

So she gathers them all
In Twilight’s great hall
and shows them her new self;
Twilight, of course, goes to the bookshelf.

Rainbow Dash says, “Fluttershy, that’s so cool!”
and Fluttershy feels a bit like a fool,
as all of them, Rarity, Pinkie, Applejack,
each has her back.

How could she have doubted them?
Thought that they would ever condemn
the real her?
Foolish thoughts, that’s all they were.

Eventually Twilight comes out from her nook,
held in her hoof a very old book;
hidden there amongst the pages was a tome,
detailing what used to be the Flutter Ponies’ home:

Flutter Valley.