Cotton Candy Cocoon

Dear Young Butterfly,

As I crawl along the ground, my thoughts turn to you. So free and unbound, I long for something new. Soaring high in the sky, fluttering open and wide, but the change, scares me, and makes me want to hide.

Then I remember. Your journey is my journey too, from a caterpillar just like me, to a beautiful something new.

I imagine the obstacles and struggles you’ll have to get through. How hard it will be emerging from your cotton candy cocoon.

So now it is my turn, to walk down the path, facing my fears with a sugary laugh. For change can be scary, that much is true, but with love and laughter, we can always push through.

I’ll spin our cocoon, what a sweet delight, and trust in the process, there is no need to fight.

If I can embrace the unknow, the bitter and the sweet, I'll emerge transformed, what a satisfying treat.

Thank you for your inner guidance showing me the way and I can't wait to meet you on that glorious day. When our cotton candy enclosure gives way to something new, and the I that is me, is now the we, that is you.

Will you remember the ground and how slow we used to move. Or is moving on just the part of me, you ultimately had to lose.

One last look back, is something I will not do. One last goodbye, can not be said to someone who has never met you.

So when you awake and smell a silky sugary mix, I know then you’ll remember my one and only gift. Fly high young butterfly and once a year in June, please think of me when you smell another cotton candy cocoon.

With love and admiration,

An old caterpillar