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Easter Week: Life and Death

3/23/2016

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Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly.    (unattributed proverb)
I am
a caterpillar
soft and vulnerable
hanging upside down
ready to harden my skin
against all predators
to wait...

Some chrysalises
transform to become
a butterfly
beautiful and free,
While others
wither and die.
Which will I?



Harden the skin
Shut out the world
Commune with the self
A Chrysalis
Still and dark
Waiting...



Once I found
a caterpillar
that hardened then 
grew black and dry 
and I thought I had killed it.
But months later
it emerged
Yellow and black wings
And flew away.
So there is hope.

​-MW
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Piccolism:

I know not what could or should be; I only know what is. And that suffices.



A Polar Pair

Without life there is no death,
Without death there is no life.
In life we consume,
In death we are consumed.
Life is born of death,
And death is born of life.

-JM




The Flow of Things

Night follows day
And day follows night,
Death follows life
And life follows death.
All else is and has its being
In sympathetic harmony.

​-JM


An Epigram a Day:

Let live what will and let die what is spent.

Life ends when hope dies.

Birth and death are life's sole certainties.

To live is to suffer and to suffer is to live.

Humans live to die and die to live.

Most are dead though alive,
Few live on though dead!

Life is a never-ending seduction, death a never-ending fear.
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