Nigeria, March 1 -- Are we always ready to hug change or growth,

to leave behind our muffled shells for worth?

In life, animals need to allow for regeneration.

Change is not regularly a hassle-free obligation.



Did you know that they eat the skin they shed?

Some lizards, frogs and insects do, or so I heard.

I know that dogs and cats discard fur seasonally,

when they fine-tune it to temperatures, naturally.



I hear too that hermit crabs cast off their skin,

and, nature, that's when old skin is outgrown.

Shed hair, flush out grey fuzz and a tired horn.

I see surreptitious serpents slip out of old skin.



There's molting in insects and animals, shedding

in hoppers and frogs. Amphibians. It's comforting.

Reptiles renew whil...