Struggle … caterpillar … earth bound
Darkness … cocoon … transformation
New birth … butterfly … flight
New life … colour … beauty …
Sudden death – one life for another
All too soon.
Is there more?
[Mark Conner – January 23rd, 2014. Written after observing a willy wagtail eat a butterfly on a walking trail, leaving just it's beautiful wings. Note the ant already there]