C is for...

Welcome to day three of the A to Z challenge!

Today's topic is change.  Or rather, a poem about change.

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change

is not always so
beautiful
and elegant

as when the butterfly
emerges from
the
cocoon of the caterpillar

there is not always the
arresting new colors
or
fluttering of wings newly freed

at times it

is the popping and creaking
of old bones
trapped in the quotidian

is the quivering of muscles
from unfamiliar exertions

is pain
shredding through the
fabric of one’s being

change

is

the unrelenting pressure
of the
world stage

towards moving
in one direction
or
another

would that change
were easy as a
phoenix
rising from the ashes
of its own evolution

alas

change

is

rivers of sorrow
streaming
     down
        the face

cheeks flushed
     rosy with
        joy

clouds of dismay
     obscuring
        one’s personal
           truth

and finally

change

is

interminable