Metamorphosis Poem by Don Winslow

Why was I writing my 1961 thesis on the Antoine Equation when I could have been writing poetry like my 2005, “What is Love”?
Because I didn’t know that this Caterpillar could fly.

Why was I writing a 1975 Patent Application on “Novel Copolymers” when I could have been writing poetry like my 2006, “Why is the Rhyme so Sublime”?
Because I didn’t know that I was trapped in an emotional-block chrysalis for 75 years.

Radiation Treatments have ruptured that hard, confining cocoon.
Out went the cold, analytical, objective writing,
In came the soul-warming, expressive, subjective musings.
The Caterpillar is gone; the Butterfly flexes its wings!