Metamorphosis Poem by Uma Sankar

Disintegration... I'm going through,
My limbs yesterday, torso today,
My head, may be tomorrow.
Painful, is it? You might ask,
Go through it! And you'll know.
I was young and green and gay,
Full of vigour, appetite, that day.
The chick tried to peck me out,
But how I eluded her! That day.
The swallow's attempt to swallow me,
And my hiding behind the leaf, so green!
Those afflictions, to undergo this?
If only I saw time's future kiss!
Metamorphosis, nature's law they say,
To transform -to charm, glow and shine?
Color, beauty, did I ask for it?
Wings to fly, did I beg for it?
Give me a life - a worm's full life,
And let me die - as ugly as I am!