franzycarina’s Reviews > Not All in Your Head: Poetry & Prose for Mental Health > Status Update

I used to subscribe to this idea that i was just in my caterpillar phase. that any day now, i’d become a butterfly. but when you’ve been awaiting transformation for years, you stop expecting wings to sprout from your back. you stop expecting you’ll go to sleep as one thing and wake up as another. you stop expecting metamorphosis. you simply stop expecting.