writing from the in-between of healing & hurting, softness & rage, silence & scream; this space is for the ghosts i carry, and the selves i’m still becoming.

002 | in my goo era

did you know
caterpillars basically dissolve
to become a butterfly.

but
a brimstone, a swallowtail, a map caterpillar -
they already are a brimstone, a swallowtail, a map butterfly.

the goo inside the chrysalis
is still
a brimstone, a swallowtail, a map.

becoming
is not pretty;
it's cruel and painful and scary.

but during all this time,
no matter the state,
i am still
me,
becoming.

#poetry #fortheghostsicarry
#whattheflowersknow