Butterfly's self-identity

*Japanese ver

Spring

Seeing butterflies here and there

And wondering
if they don't get so-called an “identity crisis”?

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Just a few days ago
they are ugly caterpillars, crawling on the ground

Then suddenly
they turn into butterflies, floating through the air

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When did they learn to fly?

Weren’t they confused
by such extraordinary transformations in their own bodies?

Do they believe
“I” as a caterpillar, and “I” as a butterfly—
am the one and only, and the same soul?