Metamorphosis

Ugly and ungainly
Concealed within this chrysalis
It twists and turns in torment

Drowning in darkness
Stifled by suffocating silence
It struggles and panics inside its self-made prison

Desperate to be free
Too terrified to leave
Protected in its desolation
Cocooned

Ashamed
It rejects its graceless form
And writhes inside this deathly shroud
Becoming

Reborn
Revitalised
Awakened
It breaks its bounds

Short, sharp bursts of light
Invade and then explode its former being
New life emerges

Evolved
Exquisite
Beauty reincarnate
It glows
It gleams
It soars