Swallowtail Butterfly (Papilio polytes)

Swallowtail Butterfly (Papilio polytes) 

Dr Abe V Rotor

 

 Swallowtail Butterfly (Papilio polytes) feeding on citrus leaves

Obnoxious I look and smell no one dares to get near,

much less to pick me neither by beak nor tongue,   

for my enemies are few, so my friends - if I know;

you see, if you are ugly and dirty no one bothers you,

like anyone else not excluding some humans;

but in my case Nature designed me this way, 

and she thinks I'm beautiful, to me it is a gift of life;

surviving a cruel world.  I rest now and someday

I'll metamorphose into something beautiful 

in the eyes of humans, so beautiful and dainty

no one will ever ask what I was before. ~

Swallowtail Butterfly (Papilio polytes)