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The Caterpillar (Revisited)
You can let them back in.
Smile back at them once again.
You know you have been holding it in for far too long.
Your smile is vibrant like the color on your sister, the butterfly’s, wings.
There is a spectrum of light waiting to be seen
You can smile at them once again.
Tell them that it is okay, that you are okay.
Speak to them again
You know you have missed the sound of their voice.
Speak so much that your words blend
Like the hum of dragonflies.
Smile, speak, laugh
Laugh at their jokes once more
Make sweet music with you laughter
Like the grasshopper on a warm night.
Look at them
Look at them again
Feel the compulsion to hug them again
Compelled like the bumbling bee to the
Beautifully bloomed flower.
Look at them again
Look at yourself
Look at yourself again
Look at the now abandoned skin of your cocoon
Remember your thin, silken, protective skin
Remember how you had to understand that this is only temporary
That you were changing
That you were growing
That you were beautiful
You are beautiful
Look at yourself
And understand that you will always be enough
Be resilient in your metamorphosis, caterpillar
Look at yourself once again.
You can let yourself back in, butterfly.
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