MU-Peter: November 2020

Monday, November 2, 2020

Love Life Enough To Struggle

Love Life

Enough

to Struggle

Once upon a time,

a man found a butterfly
that was starting to hatch
from it's cocoon.
He sat down
and watched the butterfly for hours
as it struggled to free itself
through a tiny hole.
Then, it stopped making progress
and appeared to be stuck.

The man

decided to help the butterfly out.

He took a pair of scissors

and gentle cut the rest of the cocoon.

The butterfly then emerged, easily,

but it had a bloated body

and tiny shriveled wings.

The man thought nothing of it

and sat there

waiting for the wings to enlarge

and support the butterfly.

However, that never happened.

The butterfly

spent the rest of it's life unable to fly,

crawling around

with a swollen body and small wings.

Despite the man's kind heart,

he didn't understand
that the restricting cocooon
and the struggle by the butterfly
to get itself out of the hole
were nature's way of forcing fluids
from the body into it's wings
to prepare itself for flying
once it was free.

"A fallen flower returning to the branch?
It was a butterfly."

Arakida Moritake