Metamorphosis
acceptance of failure
is a talent acquired over time
the young man i was
could never comprehend
the freedom failure
bestows
the feeling of humanity
in every tear shed
over an impossible path
i have discovered for the first
time that i am as small
as a gnat on the back of a
gnat
under the microscope of a
gnat
which was created by a
gnat
and will be born again
as a butter-
fly
this knowledge shows the patience
that experience
manifests within the young adult
psyche
the older me
will read this wise inscription
and giggle
at the innocence
of its shallow meditation
the gray me will
rewrite the moral
and manipulate the meaning
to reflect the chaos
that each beat of the young
newly-born butterfly’s wings
has imparted on the future
that has now transformed the reader
into a luna moth
and carried by the wind just
before a ravenous storm
the moth i will be
will finally
be stripped bare
to expose the frailness
of the man who dwelled within
and as each tear falls from the heavens
all that i once knew
and all that I have learned will
dissolve
to be consumed
by
a
gnat.
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