Chasing Butterflies

“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.” — Maya Angelou

Sometimes we chase butterflies,

attracted to the finished bloom of wing,

the sweet flutter of refined beauty, 

the canvas completed, the masterpiece;

but there is change and hard work 

that must first be protected, a growing 

season, from birth to nurture to chrysalis —

all beautiful as part of the consummated

metamorphosis, fully realized maturity

finally able to unfurl and give 

something meaningful 

back to the world.

—C.L. Fisher, June 2020

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