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Metamorphosis: a profound change in form from one stage to the next in the life history of an organism, as from the caterpillar to the pupa and from the pupa to the adult butterfly.   I wonder if pupas are ever afraid. Or lonely. Or confused.   Or if it hurts inside the cocoon... as they transform from one shape to another.   Or if somehow, their tiny brains possess some divine knowledge that the process they are involuntarily facing is just exactly what they were made to do.   Does the caterpillar trust the Creator?     I am in a cocoon, of late.   I am unsure of the process. Skeptical that something beautiful could emerge from this dark, confining space. Suspicious of the unknown. Scared.   I have a love/hate relationship with the cocoon.   I am swathed in its silky warmth but confined by it's darkness. Safe, but at the same time made crazy in it's encompassingly protective wrapping. Dangerously desirous