Parts of life, all life offer points of transition
Butterflies show us this most clearly
Seemingly soft, but strong and resilient
So much comes from the struggle
-to change
-to move through
-what was; to
-what can be
They are unmade and remade
Adding strength to their wings in the effort to escape the chrysalis
Support, resources from outside sources – these can be used
But to intervene, to cut them free? Dooms them.
They dissolve their sense of flesh, of self
-To move on
-To transition
-To transform
The future inside them made gloriously manifest
Just so – our future is within
Waiting for moments of transition
Those transitions are not, are never, cannot be:
-Without consequences
-Without pain
-Without struggle
We cannot know the shape of our future
But we can know that
-some strengths
-some understandings
-some manifestations of potential
For all their beauty
Are born in pain
As, in truth, we all are.