October 13th - Transformations

Transformations

something round, whole, perfect
    pure white pearly
        little egg
            full of life
                full of potential
                    creation encapsulated

and I was mesmerized
    I was in love... I wondered
        what would grow?

Something hatched

    and instead of wonder...
        a sickly worm
            with a desperate hue
                pulsed forth from that little globe

    and I gasped
    disappointment and revulsion
    I almost turned to go

Then I saw it get busy
    at it's strange work
        and I became confused
            as it moved from something ugly
                to something clouded in a haze

as it hid itself away
    from my scrutinizing gaze....
cocooned

        Again, I almost left

    feeling isolated from the little being
    perhaps this wrapping
    a death shroud

as I mourned still
    my little egg, pearly white
        and pure...

    and wondered at my ignorance

        for all that I could see... 
        this busy nasty worm
        that it had come to be, 
        now veiled in a final goodbye

    did once again, egg like twitch

and captivate my eye

    Then what I saw astounded
         and filled me with surprise
            from the bottom of this shroud
                crept a small and perfect being...

    I could start to see it's pattern
        something whole, something I'd never seen
        
                wings

            still crinkled from the cottony shell
            close to the body
                sleek and velvety as well

full of colour
full of life
full of contrast
full of delight

        I had never imagined
            something more beautiful 
                than that little white egg

    my mind hadn't grasped
        all the potential there

            and to think I had almost walked away
                and mourned
                    when perhaps now...

If I patiently sit
    and watch the wings
        take the time they need
            to fill and unfold...

                I may see this creature fly 

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