How Like Caterpillars We Are

HOW LIKE CATERPILLARS WE ARE –
     Creeping, crawling, cavorting over
     Every leaf and limb;
     Searching for that
     Scintillating something that
     Will feed us forever.
 
How like caterpillars we are –
     Toiling, turning, spinning –
     Wrapping life closer and closer       
     About ourselves
     ‘til we close out the world around us           
     from those who would give
     and take our love.
 
But OH!
 
How like butterflies we can become!
     Once we give up our
     Creeping and crawling
     Turning and toiling.
     He can give us new life…
 
And freedom to fly!