What awaits us?
Butterflies
by Chris Heeter
Hanging in the balance
with delicate flower petal wings
the butterfly waits . . . and dries.
Soon she'll launch herself upward,
abandoning her milkweed worm world
for sky and air --
did the caterpillar ever ponder this --
Flight!
She awakens the dreamer in all of us,
begging the question:
what can we leave behind?
What unfathomable possibilities await
as we transform along the way?
by Chris Heeter
Hanging in the balance
with delicate flower petal wings
the butterfly waits . . . and dries.
Soon she'll launch herself upward,
abandoning her milkweed worm world
for sky and air --
did the caterpillar ever ponder this --
Flight!
She awakens the dreamer in all of us,
begging the question:
what can we leave behind?
What unfathomable possibilities await
as we transform along the way?
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Reprinted with permission
Comments
Merrily, merrily...
Joy: Amen to that!
DBSO: Sounds perfectly magical!
Alex: We're growing what my earth doctor son calls a pollinator garden. Am hoping to catch the life cycle of some winged creatures there! I'm going to have to check into this butterfly exhibit thing. Both you and distracted mentioned one, and we've got a conservatory in St. Paul! Thanks for the idea, both of you!
The butterfly manages a magnificent transformation. Not sure we mere mortals are quite up to that ... but we can dream!
Rudee: Got that massage yet?
Derrick: How true - on all scores!