Dissilient

Today’s word: “dissilient” bursting apart, bursting open

Changes

Hanging green and gem-like from its tether,

the chrysalis enshrouds the former caterpillar,

shielding its secrets from prying eyes.

The earth-bound worm has crawled inside

its own tomb, trusting against all nature’s instincts,

that once inside it will not die, but live.

It cannot know what form it will finally take,

or if, or when it may awaken, or that its dissilient

home will release it to an incomprehensible future.

Yet, blinking, stretching, emergence becomes reality.

And what is this new urge to move, to … fly?

How does a life-long, gravity-bound, creature understand?

Enlarging, drying wings at last begin to move,

reaching for they know not what, yet feeling

in every flutter, a lifting and rejoicing unexpected.

At last, air born, its world-wide view has

become a breath-taking whorl of petalled colors

and a nectared banquet of exquisite joy.  

Anne Selleck

Copyright 2013