Slowly creeping through this world
unaware, changeless
To my surroundings
Structurally dissimilar from you
Naïve
In my wandering
Not yet an adult
I feed on plants
You, a carnivore
A caterpillar
Cradled in your
warmth
Nourished with your
love,
I became a sessile, affixed to your
Sensual base
Kept
Partaking only of you
Your sex, my food
Supplying an appetite
You matured, perverted
Castoff
Detached me
Released me
Made me your fool
When you left me
I started spinning
A Pupa
Inactive, nonfeeding
Sobbing, remembering
The love, the laughs
The words, the pain
The heartache, the shame
your end game
Isolated
Cocooned from the world
I underwent internal
changes
Fundamental reshaped
My thoughts, my person
Transforming myself
within the chrysalis
of my despair
Altered
A Butterfly emerged
spreading my gossamer-wings
I fly free, no longer
bound
In my sorry and tears
Soaring high, I touched the sky
Completion
A new creature in a new world
Thoughts of you dispersed
In the changing of the winds
Created by my new
found wings
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