The way of some bipeds

 

The way of some bipeds

(read, the way of Karma):

If you are a certain pupa,

You struggle to emerge,

Yet become

A beautiful butterfly

And flit around

And are admired by many bipeds.

If you are another type of pupa,

You are put into boiling water

By some bipeds,

You die and leave behind

Strands of silk,

That is woven by some bipeds

Into beautiful clothes.

And then some bipeds

Flit around in those clothes,

And are admired by

Some other bipeds.