On Flight
"Caterpillars form cocoons
to eventually blossom
into beautiful
butterflies"
And so children are told
to do the same.
They play and crawl
endlessly
until they are taught
beauty
and to anticipate
growth.
Life gets harder.
Complicated.
They are taught to
embrace that.
Walls are built,
stiff.
Metamorphisizing
and shaping
them.
Inhibiting them
to stray from
what is
expected.
They finally
emerge
into adulthood,
confused.
What if
after all those years
looking ahead,
they have become blind
to the colors
in their wings?
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