Curve: Emptiness and Futility

Feeling very alone and forlorn,
Saw a monarch butterfly
Fluttering past against a cloudy sky,
Thought about its natural history:

An egg is laid
On a milkweed plant,
Hatches by itself,
Grows by itself,
Transforms by itself,
Takes wing by itself,
Alone, just like me,

But, I am not a butterfly,
But a human being (Whatever that is!);
Each butterfly is unique,
And yet it’s a butterfly,
Not a cloud or a human being;

Each human is unique,
And yet all are human beings,
And each cloud is unique,
And yet still a cloud.

But, look now,
A cloud contains the five elements,
Namely, moisture, air, heat, earth, and space,
And so does a butterfly
And so does a human being.

And also, a butterfly
Cannot exist in isolation:
It needs the milkweed,
And everything else
In order to be;

All are unique, separate, isolated,
And inherently empty, connected, integrated;
But, I still don’t see
How that helps me today!