23 March 2026

Metamorphosis

The larva eats like mad 
and withdraws itself 
into a cocoon.
Then it broods.

Each step guides
Every action or 
inaction towards a 
becoming.

Each bite coding a color.
Each utterance 
defining a flap. 

The intent is decided, 
noise is removed, 
action is streamlined.
and when it's time-

The wings are 
fluttered and boom-
the first flight. 

The butterfly must 
become a butterfly.
Not by chance.
No by miracle. 

But by outgrowing 
a noun it is to 
Become an attribute.

The butterflyness 
of it from every breath 
till a culmination-
The flight wasn't in
The wings.
It was in the intent.