THE SADNESS OF METAMORPHOSIS
Questions for God
Is the butterfly still the caterpillar?
Does it want to leave its chubby ribbed wiggly body behind?
Is the beautiful caterpillar consumed by this new incarnation?
Where did the caterpillar go?
Did it have to disappear for the butterfly to exist?
Does the butterfly remember what it was before?
Did the two merge or metamorphosize? Both?
Does the butterfly miss its landlocked form?
Does the worm miss its wings?
Maybe the caterpillar and butterfly are brother and sister, twins.
They will always miss each other and wonder,
Did we ever meet? I feel like we’ve met.
You look so familiar.
Are you my family?
Sometimes I think I miss you but I really love these wings.
The butterfly is happy with its transformation,
But the caterpillar has something the butterfly will never have - the potential to become something else.
