Let’s Fly - article to indicate new beginnings for new years

It all begins:

With two pairs of fluttering wings

Coy with courtship.

Then:

Of course, comes the egg…

Tiny, silver-washed, yet brimming with the promise of life.

That’s how, we all know,

All life begins.

With promise.

Next comes the caterpillar:

Chomp, chomp, chomp, chomp

Chomp, chomp, chomp, chomp

Chomp, chomp, chomp, chomp

Chomp, chomp, chomp, chomp

Chomp, chomp, chomp, chomp

Silken Cover:

That covers itself in layers

Layers and layers…

Till it becomes the pupa.

The Unfurling:

Splitting open,

Struggling to emerge,

Weak wings ingesting fluid,

To dry, strengthen…

And fly!

Let’s fly,

In 2005.

There is

A Beginning and an End

Like all Nature

Needs to feed on itself to survive,

But there is always,

A 2005!